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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23d790c --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3 @@ -0,0 +1,237 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, +.\" on Information Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)fopen.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dt FOPEN 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm fopen , +.Nm fdopen , +.Nm freopen +.Nd stream open functions +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <stdio.h> +.Ft FILE * +.Fn fopen "char *path" "char *mode" +.Ft FILE * +.Fn fdopen "int fildes" "char *mode" +.Ft FILE * +.Fn freopen "char *path" "char *mode" "FILE *stream" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn fopen +function +opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by +.Fa path +and associates a stream with it. +.Pp +The argument +.Fa mode +points to a string beginning with one of the following +sequences (Additional characters may follow these sequences.): +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Dq Li r +Open text file for reading. +The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file. +.It Dq Li r+ +Open for reading and writing. +The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file. +.It Dq Li w +Truncate file to zero length or create text file for writing. +The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file. +.No It Dq Li w+ +Open for reading and writing. +The file is created if it does not exist, otherwise it is truncated. +The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file. +.It Dq Li a +Open for writing. +The file is created if it does not exist. +The stream is positioned at the end of the file. +.It Dq Li a+ +Open for reading and writing. +The file is created if it does not exist. +The stream is positioned at the end of the file. +.El +.Pp +The +.Fa mode +string can also include the letter ``b'' either as a third character or +as a character between the characters in any of the two-character strings +described above. +This is strictly for compatibility with +.St -ansiC +and has no effect; the ``b'' is ignored. +.Pp +Any created files will have mode +.Pf \\*q Dv S_IRUSR +\&| +.Dv S_IWUSR +\&| +.Dv S_IRGRP +\&| +.Dv S_IWGRP +\&| +.Dv S_IROTH +\&| +.Dv S_IWOTH Ns \\*q +.Pq Li 0666 , +as modified by the process' +umask value (see +.Xr umask 2 ) . +.Pp +Reads and writes may be intermixed on read/write streams in any order, +and do not require an intermediate seek as in previous versions of +.Em stdio . +This is not portable to other systems, however; +.Tn ANSI C +requires that +a file positioning function intervene between output and input, unless +an input operation encounters end-of-file. +.Pp +The +.Fn fdopen +function associates a stream with the existing file descriptor, +.Fa fildes . +The +.Fa mode +of the stream must be compatible with the mode of the file descriptor. +.Pp +The +.Fn freopen +function +opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by +.Fa path +and associates the stream pointed to by +.Fa stream +with it. +The original stream (if it exists) is closed. +The +.Fa mode +argument is used just as in the +.Xr fopen +function. +The primary use of the +.Fn freopen +function +is to change the file associated with a +standard text stream +.Pf ( Em stderr , +.Em stdin , +or +.Em stdout ) . +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Upon successful completion +.Fn fopen , +.Fn fdopen +and +.Fn freopen +return a +.Tn FILE +pointer. +Otherwise, +.Dv NULL +is returned and the global variable +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width [EINVAL] +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa mode +provided to +.Fn fopen , +.Fn fdopen , +or +.Fn freopen +was invalid. +.El +.Pp +The +.Fn fopen , +.Fn fdopen +and +.Fn freopen +functions +may also fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the routine +.Xr malloc 3 . +.Pp +The +.Fn fopen +function +may also fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the routine +.Xr open 2 . +.Pp +The +.Fn fdopen +function +may also fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the routine +.Xr fcntl 2 . +.Pp +The +.Fn freopen +function +may also fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the routines +.Xr open 2 , +.Xr fclose 3 +and +.Xr fflush 3 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr open 2 , +.Xr fclose 3 , +.Xr fseek 3 , +.Xr funopen 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn fopen +and +.Fn freopen +functions +conform to +.St -ansiC . +The +.Fn fdopen +function +conforms to +.St -p1003.1-88 . |