src/libextra/tempfile.rs

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//! Temporary files and directories


use std::os;
use std::rand::Rng;
use std::rand;

/// Attempts to make a temporary directory inside of `tmpdir` whose name will
/// have the suffix `suffix`. If no directory can be created, None is returned.
pub fn mkdtemp(tmpdir: &Path, suffix: &str) -> Option<Path> {
    let mut r = rand::rng();
    for _ in range(0u, 1000) {
        let p = tmpdir.push(r.gen_ascii_str(16) + suffix);
        if os::make_dir(&p, 0x1c0) { // 700
            return Some(p);
        }
    }
    None
}

// the tests for this module need to change the path using change_dir,
// and this doesn't play nicely with other tests so these unit tests are located
// in src/test/run-pass/tempfile.rs