Crate temp_dir

temp-dir

Provides a TempDir struct.

Features

• Makes a directory in a system temporary directory
• Recursively deletes the directory and its contents on drop
• Deletes symbolic links and does not follow them
• Optional name prefix
• Depends only on std
• forbid(unsafe_code)
• 100% test coverage

Limitations

• Not security-hardened. For example, directory and file names are predictable.
• This crate uses std::fs::remove_dir_all which may be unreliable on Windows. See rust#29497 and remove_dir_all crate.

Alternatives

• tempdir
  • Unmaintained
  • Popular and mature
  • Heavy dependencies (rand, winapi)
• tempfile
  • Popular and mature
  • Contains unsafe, dependencies full of unsafe
  • Heavy dependencies (libc, winapi, rand, etc.)
• test_dir
  • Has a handy TestDir struct
  • Incomplete documentation
• temp_testdir
  • Incomplete documentation
• mktemp
  • Sets directory mode 0700 on unix
  • Contains unsafe
  • No readme or online docs

Related Crates

• temp-file

Example

use temp_dir::TempDir;
let d = TempDir::new().unwrap();
// Prints "/tmp/t1a9b-0".
println!("{:?}", d.path());
let f = d.child("file1");
// Prints "/tmp/t1a9b-0/file1".
println!("{:?}", f);
std::fs::write(&f, b"abc").unwrap();
assert_eq!(
    "abc",
    std::fs::read_to_string(&f).unwrap(),
);
// Prints "/tmp/t1a9b-1".
println!(
    "{:?}", TempDir::new().unwrap().path());

Cargo Geiger Safety Report

Changelog

• v0.1.13 - Update docs.
• v0.1.12 - Work when the directory already exists.
• v0.1.11
  • Return std::io::Error instead of String.
  • Add cleanup.
• v0.1.10 - Implement Eq, Ord, Hash
• v0.1.9 - Increase test coverage
• v0.1.8 - Add leak.
• v0.1.7 - Update docs: Warn about std::fs::remove_dir_all being unreliable on Windows. Warn about predictable directory and file names. Thanks to Reddit user burntsushi.
• v0.1.6 - Add TempDir::panic_on_cleanup_error. Thanks to Reddit users KhorneLordOfChaos and dpc_pw for their comments.
• v0.1.5 - Explain how it handles symbolic links. Thanks to Reddit user Mai4eeze for this idea.
• v0.1.4 - Update docs
• v0.1.3 - Minor code cleanup, update docs
• v0.1.2 - Update docs
• v0.1.1 - Fix license
• v0.1.0 - Initial version

Structs

• TempDir
  The path of an existing writable directory in a system temporary directory.