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 aNULL
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. |