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Create a new directory with a name constructed by appending an automatically&hyphen;generated suffix to the specified `prefix`&period; A non&hyphen;zero return value indicates that no such directory could be created&semi; otherwise the name of the directory created is assigned to the specified `outPath`&period; The directory is created with permissions restricted, as closely as possible, to the caller only&period; If the prefix is a relative path, the directory is created relative to the process current directory&period; Responsibility for deleting the directory (and any files subsequently created in it) is left to the caller&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bdls&lowbar;filesystemutil&period;h&gt;`

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static
int
createTemporaryDirectory(
    xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* outPath,
    std::string&lowbar;view const& prefix);
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