Name

tmpfile function — Opens a temporary file

Synopsis

FILE* tmpfile(  )

The tmpfile function generates a unique filename and opens a file with that name using mode "wb+“. When the program terminates normally, the file is automatically deleted. If the temporary file cannot be created, a null pointer is returned.

See Also

tmpnam function

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