[PATCH] Cygwin: Have tmpfile(3) use O_TMPFILE

Mark Geisert mark@maxrnd.com
Tue Feb 9 10:50:00 GMT 2021


Per discussion on cygwin-developers, a Cygwin tmpfile(3) implementation
has been added to syscalls.cc.  This overrides the one supplied by
newlib.  Then the open(2) flag O_TMPFILE was added to the open call that
tmpfile internally makes.
---
 winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0 |  4 ++++
 winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc   | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
index f748a9bc8..d02d16863 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.2.0
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ What changed:
 
 - A few FAQ updates.
 
+- Have tmpfile(3) make use of Win32 FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY via open(2)
+  flag O_TMPFILE.
+  Addresses: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-January/247304.html
+
 
 Bug Fixes
 ---------
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 52a020f07..b79c1c7cd 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -5225,3 +5225,23 @@ pipe2 (int filedes[2], int mode)
   syscall_printf ("%R = pipe2([%d, %d], %y)", res, read, write, mode);
   return res;
 }
+
+extern "C" FILE *
+tmpfile (void)
+{
+  char *dir = getenv ("TMPDIR");
+  if (!dir)
+    dir = P_tmpdir;
+  int fd = open (dir, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_BINARY | O_TMPFILE,
+                 S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
+  if (fd < 0)
+    return NULL;
+  FILE *fp = fdopen (fd, "wb+");
+  int e = errno;
+  if (!fp)
+    close (fd); // ..will remove file
+  set_errno (e);
+  return fp;
+}
+
+EXPORT_ALIAS (tmpfile, tmpfile64);
-- 
2.30.0



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