New wrapper for access to temporary files.

[pspp-builds.git] / src / libpspp / tmpfile.h

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+/* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
+   Copyright (C) 2007, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* A interface to allow a temporary file to be treated as an
+   array of data. */
+
+#ifndef LIBPSPP_TMPFILE_H
+#define LIBPSPP_TMPFILE_H 1
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+
+struct tmpfile *tmpfile_create (void);
+bool tmpfile_destroy (struct tmpfile *);
+bool tmpfile_read (const struct tmpfile *, off_t offset, size_t n, void *);
+bool tmpfile_write (struct tmpfile *, off_t offset, size_t n, const void *);
+bool tmpfile_error (const struct tmpfile *);
+
+#endif /* libpspp/tmpfile.h */