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doc: Add a module index. * doc/Makefile (undocumented-modules.texi): New rule. (%.info, %.html, %.dvi, %.pdf): Depend on undocumented-modules.texi. (mostlyclean): Remove also *.m and *.tmp. (force): New rule. * doc/*.texi: Add module index entries. * doc/*/*.texi: Likewise.
@node mkostemp
@subsection @code{mkostemp}
@findex mkostemp
POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/mkostemp.html}
Documentation:@* @uref{https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/mkostemp.3.html,,man mkostemp}
Gnulib module: mkostemp
@mindex mkostemp
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on many non-glibc platforms:
glibc 2.6, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 1.7.5, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 5.1.
@item
This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>} instead of @code{<stdlib.h>}
on some platforms:
macOS 14.
@item
On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{mkostemp} may not work
correctly to create files larger than 2 GB@. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize
@mindex clean-temp
The gnulib module @code{clean-temp} can create temporary files that will not
be left behind after signals such as SIGINT.