1 /* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
2 Copyright (C) 2004, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
24 /* Prepares to atomically replace a (potentially) existing file
25 by a new file, by creating a temporary file with the given
26 PERMISSIONS bits in the same directory as *FILE_NAME.
28 Special files are an exception: they are not atomically
29 replaced but simply opened for writing.
31 If successful, stores the temporary file's name in *TMP_NAME
32 and a stream for it opened according to MODE (which should be
33 "w" or "wb") in *FP. Returns a ticket that can be used to
34 commit or abort the file replacement. If neither action has
35 yet been taken, program termination via signal will cause
36 *TMP_FILE to be unlinked.
38 The caller is responsible for closing *FP, but *TMP_NAME is
39 owned by the callee. */
40 struct replace_file *replace_file_start (const char *file_name,
41 const char *mode, mode_t permissions,
42 FILE **fp, char **tmp_name);
44 /* Commits or aborts the replacement of a (potentially) existing
45 file by a new file, using the ticket returned by
46 replace_file_start. Returns success. */
47 bool replace_file_commit (struct replace_file *);
48 bool replace_file_abort (struct replace_file *);
50 #endif /* make-file.h */