/*  $Id: mkstemp.c 5329 2002-03-17 07:39:14Z rra $
**
**  Replacement for a missing mkstemp.
**
**  Written by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
**  This work is hereby placed in the public domain by its author.
**
**  Provides the same functionality as the library function mkstemp for those
**  systems that don't have it.
*/

#include "config.h"
#include "clibrary.h"
#include "portable/time.h"
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

/* If we're running the test suite, rename mkstemp to avoid conflicts with the
   system version.  #undef it first because some systems may define it to
   another name. */
#if TESTING
# undef mkstemp
# define mkstemp test_mkstemp
int test_mkstemp(char *);
#endif

/* Pick the longest available integer type. */
#if HAVE_LONG_LONG
typedef unsigned long long long_int_type;
#else
typedef unsigned long long_int_type;
#endif

int
mkstemp(char *template)
{
    static const char letters[] =
        "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
    size_t length;
    char *XXXXXX;
    struct timeval tv;
    long_int_type randnum, working;
    int i, tries, fd;

    /* Make sure we have a valid template and initialize p to point at the
       beginning of the template portion of the string. */
    length = strlen(template);
    if (length < 6) {
        errno = EINVAL;
        return -1;
    }
    XXXXXX = template + length - 6;
    if (strcmp(XXXXXX, "XXXXXX") != 0) {
        errno = EINVAL;
        return -1;
    }

    /* Get some more-or-less random information. */
    gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
    randnum = ((long_int_type) tv.tv_usec << 16) ^ tv.tv_sec ^ getpid();

    /* Now, try to find a working file name.  We try no more than TMP_MAX file
       names. */
    for (tries = 0; tries < TMP_MAX; tries++) {
        for (working = randnum, i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
            XXXXXX[i] = letters[working % 62];
            working /= 62;
        }
        fd = open(template, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
        if (fd >= 0 || errno != EEXIST)
            return fd;

        /* This is a relatively random increment.  Cut off the tail end of
           tv_usec since it's often predictable. */
        randnum += (tv.tv_usec >> 10) & 0xfff;
    }
    errno = EEXIST;
    return -1;
}


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