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### 4.66 `tmpfile`—create a temporary file

Synopsis

    #include <stdio.h>
    FILE *tmpfile(void);

    FILE *_tmpfile_r(struct _reent *reent);

Description
Create a temporary file (a file which will be deleted automatically), using a name generated by `tmpnam`. The temporary file is opened with the mode `"wb+"`, permitting you to read and write anywhere in it as a binary file (without any data transformations the host system may perform for text files).

The alternate function `_tmpfile_r` is a reentrant version. The argument reent is a pointer to a reentrancy structure.

Returns
`tmpfile` normally returns a pointer to the temporary file. If no temporary file could be created, the result is NULL, and `errno` records the reason for failure.

Portability
Both ANSI C and the System V Interface Definition (Issue 2) require `tmpfile`.

Supporting OS subroutines required: `close`, `fstat`, `getpid`, `isatty`, `lseek`, `open`, `read`, `sbrk`, `write`.

`tmpfile` also requires the global pointer `environ`.