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- /*
- * @(#)FileDescriptor.java 1.10 97/01/22
- *
- * Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
- *
- * This software is the confidential and proprietary information of Sun
- * Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You shall not
- * disclose such Confidential Information and shall use it only in
- * accordance with the terms of the license agreement you entered into
- * with Sun.
- *
- * SUN MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE
- * SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
- * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- * PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SUN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
- * SUFFERED BY LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING
- * THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES.
- *
- * CopyrightVersion 1.1_beta
- *
- */
-
- package java.io;
-
- /**
- * Instances of the file descriptor class serve as an opaque handle
- * to the underlying machine-specific structure representing an open
- * file or an open socket.
- * <p>
- * Applications should not create their own file descriptors.
- *
- * @author Pavani Diwanji
- * @version 1.10, 01/22/97
- * @see java.io.FileInputStream
- * @see java.io.FileOutputStream
- * @see java.net.SocketInputStream
- * @see java.net.SocketOutputStream
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- public final class FileDescriptor {
-
- private int fd;
-
- /**
- * A handle to the standard input stream.
- *
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- public static final FileDescriptor in
- = initSystemFD(new FileDescriptor(),0);
-
- /**
- * A handle to the standard output stream.
- *
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- public static final FileDescriptor out
- = initSystemFD(new FileDescriptor(),1);
-
- /**
- * A handle to the standard error stream.
- *
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- public static final FileDescriptor err
- = initSystemFD(new FileDescriptor(),2);
-
- /**
- * Tests if this file descriptor object is valid.
- *
- * @return <code>true</code> if the file descriptor object represents a
- * valid, open file or socket; <code>false</code> otherwise.
- * @since JDK1.0
- */
- public native boolean valid();
-
- /**
- * Force all system buffers to synchronize with the underlying
- * device. This method returns after all modified data and
- * attributes of this FileDescriptor have been written to the
- * relevant device(s). In particular, if this FileDescriptor
- * refers to a physical storage medium, such as a file in a file
- * system, sync will not return until all in-memory modified copies
- * of buffers associated with this FileDesecriptor have been
- * written to the physical medium.
- *
- * sync is meant to be used by code that requires physical
- * storage (such as a file) to be in a known state For
- * example, a class that provided a simple transaction facility
- * might use sync to ensure that all changes to a file caused
- * by a given transaction were recorded on a storage medium.
- *
- * sync only affects buffers downstream of this FileDescriptor. If
- * any in-memory buffering is being done by the application (for
- * example, by a BufferedOutputStream object), those buffers must
- * be flushed into the FileDescriptor (for example, by invoking
- * OutputStream.flush) before that data will be affected by sync.
- *
- * @exception SyncFailedException
- * Thrown when the buffers cannot be flushed,
- * or because the system cannot guarantee that all the
- * buffers have been synchronized with physical media.
- * @since JDK1.1
- */
- public native void sync() throws SyncFailedException;
-
- /**
- * This routine initializes in, out and err in a sytem dependent way.
- */
- private static native FileDescriptor initSystemFD(FileDescriptor fdObj,
- int desc);
- }
-