// Copyright 2010 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. package fileutils import ( "os" "path/filepath" "strconv" "sync" "time" ) // Random number state. // We generate random temporary file names so that there's a good // chance the file doesn't exist yet - keeps the number of tries in // TempFile to a minimum. var rand uint32 var randmu sync.Mutex func reseed() uint32 { return uint32(time.Now().UnixNano() + int64(os.Getpid())) } func nextSuffix() string { randmu.Lock() r := rand if r == 0 { r = reseed() } r = r*1664525 + 1013904223 // constants from Numerical Recipes rand = r randmu.Unlock() return strconv.Itoa(int(1e9 + r%1e9))[1:] } // TempFile creates a new temporary file in the directory dir // with a name beginning with prefix and ending with ext, opens the // file for reading and writing, and returns the resulting *os.File. // If dir is the empty string, TempFile uses the default directory // for temporary files (see os.TempDir). // Multiple programs calling TempFile simultaneously // will not choose the same file. The caller can use f.Name() // to find the pathname of the file. It is the caller's responsibility // to remove the file when no longer needed. func TempFile(dir, prefix, ext string) (f *os.File, err error) { if dir == "" { dir = os.TempDir() } nconflict := 0 for i := 0; i < 10000; i++ { name := filepath.Join(dir, prefix+nextSuffix()+"."+ext) f, err = os.OpenFile(name, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_EXCL, 0600) if os.IsExist(err) { if nconflict++; nconflict > 10 { randmu.Lock() rand = reseed() randmu.Unlock() } continue } break } return }