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| author | flywind <43030857+xflywind@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-02-16 13:17:40 -0600 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-02-16 20:17:40 +0100 |
| commit | 71feb96c636f9e0f9a3520733a8f266909e72977 (patch) | |
| tree | dd8ca33d3cda6d6766e188e40f2cc1f385e63cef /lib | |
| parent | b7cba9ea089edd186b9937de50f5044162b48258 (diff) | |
| download | Nim-71feb96c636f9e0f9a3520733a8f266909e72977.tar.gz | |
[Minor] improve the docs of getTempDir (#17058)
* [Minor] improve the docs of getTempDir * more clear * Update lib/pure/os.nim Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/pure/os.nim | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/pure/os.nim b/lib/pure/os.nim index c3349beb3..58a565c7a 100644 --- a/lib/pure/os.nim +++ b/lib/pure/os.nim @@ -954,13 +954,15 @@ proc getTempDir*(): string {.rtl, extern: "nos$1", tags: [ReadEnvEffect, ReadIOEffect].} = ## Returns the temporary directory of the current user for applications to ## save temporary files in. - ## - ## On Windows, it calls [GetTempPath](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-gettemppathw) - ## On Posix based platforms, it will check `TMPDIR`, `TEMP`, `TMP` and `TEMPDIR` environment variables. + ## + ## On Windows, it calls [GetTempPath](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-gettemppathw). + ## On Posix based platforms, it will check `TMPDIR`, `TEMP`, `TMP` and `TEMPDIR` environment variables in order. ## On all platforms, `/tmp` will be returned if the procs fails. ## ## You can override this implementation ## by adding `-d:tempDir=mytempname` to your compiler invocation. + ## + ## **Note:** This proc does not check whether the returned path exists. ## ## See also: ## * `getHomeDir proc <#getHomeDir>`_ |