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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
3 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
4 %general-entities;
5]>
6<sect1 id="ch-system-mktemp" xreflabel="Mktemp">
7<title>Mktemp-&mktemp-version;</title>
8<?dbhtml filename="mktemp.html"?>
9
10<indexterm zone="ch-system-mktemp"><primary sortas="a-Mktemp">Mktemp</primary></indexterm>
11
12<para>The Mktemp package contains programs used to create secure temporary
13files in shell scripts.</para>
14
15<screen>&buildtime; 0.1 SBU
16&diskspace; 317 KB</screen>
17
18<para>The installation dependencies for Mktemp haven't been checked yet.</para>
19
20
21
22<sect2>
23<title>Installation of Mktemp</title>
24
25<para>Many scripts still use the deprecated <command>tempfile</command>
26program, which has functionality much the same as <command>mktemp</command>.
27Patch mktemp to include a <command>tempfile</command> wrapper:</para>
28
29<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mktemp-&mktemp-version;-add-tempfile.patch</userinput></screen>
30
31<para>Now prepare Mktemp for compilation:</para>
32
33<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libc</userinput></screen>
34
35<para>The meaning of the configure option:</para>
36
37<itemizedlist>
38<listitem><para><userinput>--with-libc</userinput>: This causes the
39<command>mktemp</command> program to use the <emphasis>mkstemp</emphasis>
40and <emphasis>mkdtemp</emphasis> functions from the system C
41library.</para></listitem>
42</itemizedlist>
43
44<para>Compile the package:</para>
45
46<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
47
48<para>Now install it:</para>
49
50<screen><userinput>make install</userinput>
51<userinput>make install-tempfile</userinput></screen>
52
53</sect2>
54
55
56<sect2 id="contents-mktemp"><title>Contents of Mktemp</title>
57
58<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: mktemp, tempfile</para>
59
60</sect2>
61
62<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
63
64<indexterm zone="ch-system-mktemp mktemp"><primary sortas="b-mktemp">mktemp</primary></indexterm>
65<para id="mktemp"><command>mktemp</command> creates temporary files in a secure manner.
66It is used in scripts.</para>
67
68<indexterm zone="ch-system-mktemp tempfile"><primary sortas="b-tempfile">tempfile</primary></indexterm>
69<para id="tempfile"><command>tempfile</command> creates temporary files in a less secure
70manner than <command>mktemp</command>. It is installed for
71backwards-compatibility.</para>
72
73</sect2>
74
75
76</sect1>
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