Simplify FileName::tempName().

[features.git] / src / support / FileName.h

diff --git a/src/support/FileName.h b/src/support/FileName.h
index dd3932a2dde336e678dc095d971cdfb6f39e6d3c..12319160040b7b6941ba2667003edc3dd7cd7a7d 100644 (file)
--- a/src/support/FileName.h
+++ b/src/support/FileName.h
@@ -148,10 +148,11 @@ public:
        bool isZippedFile() const;
 
        static FileName fromFilesystemEncoding(std::string const & name);
-       /// (securely) create a temporary file in the given dir with the given mask
-       /// \p mask must be in filesystem encoding
-       static FileName tempName(FileName const & dir = FileName(),
-                                               std::string const & mask = empty_string());
+       /// (securely) create a temporary file with the given mask.
+       /// \p mask must be in filesystem encoding, if it contains a
+       /// relative path, the template file will be created in the global
+       /// temporary directory as given by 'package().temp_dir()'.
+       static FileName tempName(std::string const & mask = empty_string());
 
        /// filename without path
        std::string onlyFileName() const;