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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man3/fopen.3 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/fopen.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/fopen.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5a56e54f --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/fopen.3 @@ -0,0 +1,300 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.33 2023/09/28 01:51:00 jsg Exp $ +.\" +.\" 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. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. 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. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 28 2023 $ +.Dt FOPEN 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm fopen , +.Nm fdopen , +.Nm freopen +.Nd stream open functions +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In stdio.h +.Ft FILE * +.Fn fopen "const char *path" "const char *mode" +.Ft FILE * +.Fn fdopen "int fildes" "const char *mode" +.Ft FILE * +.Fn freopen "const char *path" "const 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 Do Li r Dc or Do Li rb Dc +Open file for reading. +.It Do Li r+ Dc or Do Li rb+ Dc or Do Li r+b Dc +Open for reading and writing. +.It Do Li w Dc or Do Li wb Dc +Open for writing. +The file is created if it does not exist, otherwise it is truncated. +.It Do Li w+ Dc or Do Li wb+ Dc or Do Li w+b Dc +Open for reading and writing. +The file is created if it does not exist, otherwise it is truncated. +.It Do Li a Dc or Do Li ab Dc +Open for writing. +The file is created if it does not exist. +.It Do Li a+ Dc or Do Li ab+ Dc or Do Li a+b Dc +Open for reading and writing. +The file is created if it does not exist. +.El +.Pp +The letter +.Dq b +in the +.Fa mode +strings above is strictly for compatibility with +.St -ansiC +and has no effect; the +.Dq b +is ignored. +.Pp +After any of the above prefixes, the +.Fa mode +string can also include zero or more of the following: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Dq Li e +The close-on-exec flag is set on the underlying file descriptor of the new +.Vt FILE . +.It Dq Li x +If the +.Fa mode +string starts with +.Dq w +or +.Dq a +then the function shall fail if the file specified by +.Fa path +already exists, as if the +.Dv O_EXCL +flag was passed to the +.Xr open 2 +function. +It has no effect if used with +.Fn fdopen +or the +.Fa mode +string begins with +.Dq r . +.El +.Pp +The +.Fn fopen +and +.Fn freopen +functions initially position the stream at the start of the file +unless the file is opened in append mode +.Po +.Sq a +or +.Sq a+ +.Pc , +in which case the stream is initially positioned at the end of the file. +.Pp +Opening a file in append mode causes all subsequent writes to it +to be forced to the current end-of-file, regardless of intervening +repositioning of the stream. +.Pp +Any created files will have mode +.Qq Dv S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP | S_IROTH | S_IWOTH +.Pq Li 0666 , +as modified by the process' +umask value (see +.Xr umask 2 ) . +.Pp +Reads and writes cannot be arbitrarily intermixed on read/write streams. +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. +The stream is positioned at the file offset of the file descriptor. +If +.Fn fdopen +fails, the file descriptor +.Fa fildes +is not affected in any way. +.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 always closed, even if +.Fn freopen +fails. +The +.Fa mode +argument is used just as in the +.Fn 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 +.Vt FILE +pointer. +Otherwise, +.Dv NULL +is returned and the global variable +.Va errno +is set to indicate the error. +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width Er +.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 . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn fopen +function first appeared in +.At v1 . +The +.Fn fdopen +and +.Fn freopen +functions first appeared in +.At v7 . +.Pp +Support for the +.Dq e +and +.Dq x +mode letters appeared in +.Ox 5.7 . +.Sh CAVEATS +Proper code using +.Fn fdopen +with error checking should +.Xr close 2 +.Fa fildes +in case of failure, and +.Xr fclose 3 +the resulting +.Vt FILE * +in case of success. +.Bd -literal + FILE *file; + int fd; + + if ((file = fdopen(fd, "r")) != NULL) { + /* perform operations on the FILE * */ + fclose(file); + } else { + /* failure, report the error */ + close(fd); + } +.Ed |
