Function
GLibget_tmp_dir
Declaration [src]
constgchar*
g_get_tmp_dir(
void
)
Description [src]
Gets the directory to use for temporary files.
On UNIX, this is taken from the TMPDIR environment variable.
If the variable is not set, P_tmpdir is
used, as defined by the system C library. Failing that, a
hard-coded default of “/tmp” is returned.
On Windows, the TEMP environment variable is used, with the
root directory of the Windows installation (eg: “C:") used
as a default.
The encoding of the returned string is system-defined. On Windows,
it is always UTF-8. The return value is never NULL or the empty string.
Return value
Type: const gchar*
The directory to use for temporary files.
The data is owned by the called function.
The value is a platform-native string, using the preferred OS encoding on Unix and UTF-8 on Windows.