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/*
* @(#)FileDescriptor.java 1.11 98/07/01
*
* Copyright 1995-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
* 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
* 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.
*/
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 1.11, 07/01/98
* @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);
}