The
fopen ();
function
opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
Fa path
and associates a stream with it.
The argument
Fa mode
points to a string beginning with one of the following
sequences (Additional characters may follow these sequences.):
``r
''
Open text file for reading.
The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file.
``r+
''
Open for reading and writing.
The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file.
``w
''
Truncate to zero length or create text file for writing.
The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file.
``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.
``a
''
Open for writing.
The file is created if it does not exist.
The stream is positioned at the end of the file.
Subsequent writes to the file will always end up at the then current
end of file, irrespective of any intervening
fseek(3)
or similar.
``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.
Subsequent writes to the file will always end up at the then current
end of file, irrespective of any intervening
fseek(3)
or similar.
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 -isoC
and has no effect; the ``b'' is ignored.
Any created files will have mode
\*q S_IRUSR
|
S_IWUSR
|
S_IRGRP
|
S_IWGRP
|
S_IROTH
|
S_IWOTH \*q
(0666
)
as modified by the process'
umask value (see
umask(2)).
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
stdio
This is not portable to other systems, however;
ANSI C
requires that
a file positioning function intervene between output and input, unless
an input operation encounters end-of-file.
The
fdopen ();
function associates a stream with the existing file descriptor,
Fa fildes .
The mode
of the stream must be compatible with the mode of the file descriptor.
When the stream is closed via
fclose(3),
Fa fildes
is closed also.
The
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
fopen ();
function.
If the
Fa path
argument is
NULL
freopen ();
attempts to re-open the file associated with
Fa stream
with a new mode.
The new mode must be compatible with the mode that the stream was originally
opened with:
Streams originally opened with mode
``r
''
can only be reopened with that same mode.
Streams originally opened with mode
``a
''
can be reopened with the same mode, or mode
``w
''
Streams originally opened with mode
``w
''
can be reopened with the same mode, or mode
``a
''
Streams originally opened with mode
``r+
''
``w+
''
or
``a+
''
can be reopened with any mode.
The primary use of the
freopen ();
function
is to change the file associated with a
standard text stream
( stderr , stdin
or
stdout )
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion
fopen (,);
fdopen ();
and
freopen ();
return a
FILE
pointer.
Otherwise,
NULL
is returned and the global variable
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
Bq Er EINVAL
The
Fa mode
argument
to
fopen (,);
fdopen (,);
or
freopen ();
was invalid.
The
fopen (,);
fdopen ();
and
freopen ();
functions
may also fail and set
errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
malloc(3).
The
fopen ();
function
may also fail and set
errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
open(2).
The
fdopen ();
function
may also fail and set
errno
for any of the errors specified for the routine
fcntl(2).
The
freopen ();
function
may also fail and set
errno
for any of the errors specified for the routines
open(2),
fclose(3)
and
fflush(3).