Function

GioFilenew_tmp

since: 2.32

Declaration [src]

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

Description [src]

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 platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.
iostream

Type: GFileIOStream

On return, a GFileIOStream for the created file.

The argument will be set by the function.
The caller of the function takes ownership of the returned 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 be 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.