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This class implements a scoped temporary directory guard. The guard tries to create a temporary directory in the system‐wide temp directory and falls back to the current directory.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_tempdirectoryguard.h>`

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class TempDirectoryGuard;
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== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/TempDirectoryGuard/2constructor.adoc[`TempDirectoryGuard`]         [.small]#[constructor]#
| Create temporary directory with the specified `prefix` in the system‐wide temp or current directory. Optionally specify a `basicAllocator` used to supply memory. If `basicAllocator` is 0, the currently installed default allocator is used.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/TempDirectoryGuard/2destructor.adoc[`~TempDirectoryGuard`] [.small]#[destructor]#
| Destroy this object and remove the temporary directory (recursively) created at construction.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/TempDirectoryGuard/getTempDirName.adoc[`getTempDirName`] 
| Return a `const` reference to the name of the created temporary directory, or an empty string if the directory was released from management.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/TempDirectoryGuard/release.adoc[`release`] 
| Remove the created temporary directory from management so that, upon this guards destruction, the created directory is not removed. Calling `release` on a guard that has previously been released has no effect.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdls/TempDirectoryGuard/2conversion.adoc[`operator BloombergLP::bslmf::NestedTraitDeclaration<TempDirectoryGuard, UsesBslmaAllocator>`] 
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