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+/* Create a temporary file or directory.
+
+   Copyright (C) 2006 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 2, 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, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+
+/* header written by Eric Blake */
+
+/* In gnulib, always prefer large files.  GT_FILE maps to
+   __GT_BIGFILE, not __GT_FILE, for a reason.  */
+#define GT_FILE		1
+#define GT_DIR		2
+#define GT_NOCREATE	3
+
+/* Generate a temporary file name based on TMPL.  TMPL must match the
+   rules for mk[s]temp (i.e. end in "XXXXXX").  The name constructed
+   does not exist at the time of the call to gen_tempname.  TMPL is
+   overwritten with the result.
+
+   KIND may be one of:
+   GT_NOCREATE:		simply verify that the name does not exist
+			at the time of the call.
+   GT_FILE:		create a large file using open(O_CREAT|O_EXCL)
+			and return a read-write fd.  The file is mode 0600.
+   GT_DIR:		create a directory, which will be mode 0700.
+
+   We use a clever algorithm to get hard-to-predict names. */
+extern int gen_tempname (char *tmpl, int kind);