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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-04-19 21:19:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-04-19 21:19:30 +0000 |
| commit | af8d55f9ceab45cfe3bf24ac331f9fbaadfec0fe (patch) | |
| tree | 5d14df60bfa7521a0de95ffe2917bd6aac9fe10f /man3/tmpfile.3 | |
| parent | 2bb6d7e6ec8bb6a00adf2271c20db2f18e8243d9 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-af8d55f9ceab45cfe3bf24ac331f9fbaadfec0fe.tar.gz | |
DESCRIPTION does not need to say "temporary file name" just "temporary
file", since the name is in any case unavailable to the user.
See Debian bug 363518
In DESCRIPTION:
Change /automatically deleted when the program terminates normally/
to /automatically deleted when the program terminates/
since that is the reality.
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/tmpfile.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/tmpfile.3 | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man3/tmpfile.3 b/man3/tmpfile.3 index 7d3fb8d31f..335c61113d 100644 --- a/man3/tmpfile.3 +++ b/man3/tmpfile.3 @@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ tmpfile \- create a temporary file .B FILE *tmpfile (void); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION -The \fBtmpfile\fP() function generates a unique temporary filename. -The temporary file is then opened in binary read/write (w+b) mode. +The \fBtmpfile\fP() function opens a unique temporary file +in binary read/write (w+b) mode. The file will be automatically deleted when it is closed or the -program terminates normally. +program terminates. .SH "RETURN VALUE" The \fBtmpfile\fP() function returns a stream descriptor, or NULL if a unique filename cannot be generated or the unique file cannot be |