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author | mckay <mckay@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-03-08 15:15:33 +0000 |
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committer | mckay <mckay@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-03-08 15:15:33 +0000 |
commit | abd50d80bbe9d46e06402d308fbe010ed26f7e33 (patch) | |
tree | b94ef70cd958d5c0185a56c978ba024989526aed /lib/libc | |
parent | ec2ad300ade18a8fa3d718105856a9909fdb6b58 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-abd50d80bbe9d46e06402d308fbe010ed26f7e33.zip FreeBSD-src-abd50d80bbe9d46e06402d308fbe010ed26f7e33.tar.gz |
Fixed a few ancient typos, added a little missing stuff, and updated
references to abort() in light of POSIX mandated behaviour. I'm
still not 100% happy with much of the wording, but it's better
than it was.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3 | 43 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3 index 81a6970..e9a29e9 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/stdio.3 @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ to a terminal) then a .Em file position indicator associated with the stream is positioned at the start of the file (byte zero), unless the file is opened with append mode. If append mode -is used, the position indicator will be placed the end-of-file. +is used, the position indicator will be placed at the end-of-file. The position indicator is maintained by subsequent reads, writes and positioning requests. All input occurs as if the characters were read by successive calls to the .Xr fgetc 3 function; all output takes place as if all characters were -read by successive calls to the +written by successive calls to the .Xr fputc 3 function. .Pp @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Output streams are flushed (any unwritten buffer contents are transferred to the host environment) before the stream is disassociated from the file. The value of a pointer to a .Dv FILE -object is indeterminate after a file is closed (garbage). +object is indeterminate (garbage) after a file is closed. .Pp A file may be subsequently reopened, by the same or another program execution, and its contents reclaimed or modified (if it can be repositioned @@ -90,12 +90,15 @@ the .Xr exit 3 function is called, all open files are closed (hence all output streams are flushed) before program termination. Other methods -of program termination, such as +of program termination may not close files properly and hence +buffered output may be lost. In particular, +.Xr _exit 2 +does not flush stdio files. Neither does an exit due to a signal. +Buffers are flushed by .Xr abort 3 -do not bother about closing files properly. +as required by POSIX, although previous implementations did not. .Pp -This implementation needs and makes -no distinction between +This implementation makes no distinction between .Dq text and .Dq binary @@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ In fact, freshly-opened streams that refer to terminal devices default to line buffering, and pending output to such streams is written automatically -whenever an such an input stream is read. +whenever such an input stream is read. Note that this applies only to .Dq "true reads" ; if the read request can be satisfied by existing buffered data, @@ -152,10 +155,7 @@ The .Nm stdio library is a part of the library .Nm libc -and routines are automatically loaded as needed by the compilers -.Xr cc 1 -and -.Xr pc 1 . +and routines are automatically loaded as needed by the C compiler. The .Tn SYNOPSIS sections of the following manual pages indicate which include files @@ -174,15 +174,16 @@ without first removing their current definitions with .Dv L_ctermid , .Dv L_tmpnam, .Dv NULL , +.Dv P_tmpdir, +.Dv SEEK_CUR , .Dv SEEK_END , .Dv SEEK_SET , -.Dv SEE_CUR , .Dv TMP_MAX , .Dv clearerr , .Dv feof , .Dv ferror , .Dv fileno , -.Dv freopen , +.Dv fropen , .Dv fwopen , .Dv getc , .Dv getchar , @@ -190,18 +191,19 @@ without first removing their current definitions with .Dv putchar , .Dv stderr , .Dv stdin , -.Dv stdout . +.Dv stdout , +.Dv vfscanf . Function versions of the macro functions +.Fn clearerr , .Fn feof , .Fn ferror , -.Fn clearerr , .Fn fileno , .Fn getc , .Fn getchar , .Fn putc , and .Fn putchar -exist and will be used if the macros +exist and will be used if the macro definitions are explicitly removed. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr close 2 , @@ -211,9 +213,7 @@ definitions are explicitly removed. .Sh BUGS The standard buffered functions do not interact well with certain other library and system functions, especially -.Xr vfork 2 -and -.Xr abort 3 . +.Xr vfork 2 . .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm stdio @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ library conforms to .Sh LIST OF FUNCTIONS .Bl -column "Description" .Sy Function Description +asprintf formatted output conversion clearerr check and reset stream status fclose close a stream fdopen stream open functions @@ -252,6 +253,7 @@ getc get next character or word from input stream getchar get next character or word from input stream gets get a line from a stream getw get next character or word from input stream +mkdtemp create unique temporary file mkstemp create unique temporary file mktemp create unique temporary file perror system error messages @@ -277,6 +279,7 @@ tempnam temporary file routines tmpfile temporary file routines tmpnam temporary file routines ungetc un-get character from input stream +vasprintf formatted output conversion vfprintf formatted output conversion vfscanf input format conversion vprintf formatted output conversion |