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+// Copyright 2017 Google Inc. All rights reserved.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package shared
+
+// This file exists to share path-related logic between both soong_ui and soong
+
+import (
+	"path/filepath"
+)
+
+// Given the out directory, returns the root of the temp directory (to be cleared at the start of each execution of Soong)
+func TempDirForOutDir(outDir string) (tempPath string) {
+	return filepath.Join(outDir, ".temp")
+}