ns_mktemp - Make a unique temporary file name
This command is a wrapper around the mktemp(3) function in the C standard library.
Note that some implementations of mktemp are not so safe - it creates predictable/only a small number of variations - please consult your system's man pages if this might be an issue to you. NaviServer could potentially be improved to use mkstemp instead, but that command creates a file as well, so this is not fully compatible.
This command takes a optionally a template as argument, which is a string whose last six characters must be XXXXXX, and returns a new string where those are replaced with random characters such as to make the string a unique file name. It is commonly used to safely create temporary files.
If this command is called without the optional parameter it behaves like
ns_mktemp [ns_config ns/parameters tmpdir]/ns-XXXXXX
% ns_mktemp /tmp/aol-XXXXXX /tmp/aol-rhaGGx