Function

GioFilenew_tmp

since: 2.32

Declaration 

GFile*
g_file_new_tmp (
  const char* tmpl,
  GFileIOStream** iostream,
  GError** error
)

Description

Opens a file in the preferred directory for temporary files (as returned by g_get_tmp_dir()) and returns a GFile and GFileIOStream pointing to it.

tmpl should be a string in the GLib file name encoding containing a sequence of six ‘X’ characters, and containing no directory components. If it is NULL, a default template is used.

Unlike the other GFile constructors, this will return NULL if a temporary file could not be created.

Available since: 2.32

Parameters

tmpl

Type: const char*

Template for the file name, as in g_file_open_tmp(), or NULL for a default template.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.
iostream

Type: GFileIOStream

On return, a GFileIOStream for the created file.

The argument will be set by the function.
The called function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.
If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.
The argument will left initialized to NULL by the function if there are no errors.
In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GFile

A new GFile. Free the returned object with g_object_unref().

The caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.