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+/* Create a temporary file or directory.
+
+   Copyright (C) 2006, 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+/* header written by Eric Blake */
+
+#ifndef GL_TEMPNAME_H
+# define GL_TEMPNAME_H
+
+# include <stdio.h>
+
+# ifdef __GT_FILE
+#  define GT_FILE     __GT_FILE
+#  define GT_DIR      __GT_DIR
+#  define GT_NOCREATE __GT_NOCREATE
+# else
+#  define GT_FILE     0
+#  define GT_DIR      1
+#  define GT_NOCREATE 2
+# endif
+
+/* Generate a temporary file name based on TMPL.  TMPL must match the
+   rules for mk[s]temp (i.e. end in "XXXXXX", possibly with a suffix).
+   The name constructed does not exist at the time of the call to
+   gen_tempname.  TMPL is overwritten with the result.
+
+   KIND may be one of:
+   GT_NOCREATE:         simply verify that the name does not exist
+                        at the time of the call.
+   GT_FILE:             create a large file using open(O_CREAT|O_EXCL)
+                        and return a read-write fd.  The file is mode 0600.
+   GT_DIR:              create a directory, which will be mode 0700.
+
+   We use a clever algorithm to get hard-to-predict names. */
+extern int gen_tempname (char *tmpl, int suffixlen, int flags, int kind);
+
+#endif /* GL_TEMPNAME_H */