home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Atari Mega Archive 1
/
Atari Mega Archive - Volume 1.iso
/
lists
/
mint
/
l_0399
/
30
< prev
next >
Wrap
Internet Message Format
|
1994-08-27
|
2KB
From: Julian F. Reschke <julian@GINA.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Subject: setmode vs. fdopen
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 14:22:11 MET DST
After reading the SUN manual pages, I would say that 'fdopen' is a better
method to handle the problem:
FOPEN(3V) C LIBRARY FUNCTIONS FOPEN(3V)
NAME
fopen, freopen, fdopen - open a stream
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *fopen(filename, type)
char *filename, *type;
FILE *freopen(filename, type, stream)
char *filename, *type;
FILE *stream;
FILE *fdopen(fd, type)
int fd;
char *type;
DESCRIPTION
fopen() opens the file named by filename and associates a
stream with it. If the open succeeds, fopen() returns a
pointer to be used to identify the stream in subsequent
operations.
filename points to a character string that contains the name
of the file to be opened.
type is a character string having one of the following
values:
r open for reading
w truncate or create for writing
a append: open for writing at end of file, or
create for writing
r+ open for update (reading and writing)
w+ truncate or create for update
a+ append; open or create for update at EOF
freopen() opens the file named by filename and associates
the stream pointed to by stream with it. The type argument
is used just as in fopen. The original stream is closed,
regardless of whether the open ultimately succeeds. If the
open succeeds, freopen() returns the original value of
stream.
freopen() is typically used to attach the preopened streams
associated with stdin, stdout, and stderr to other files.
fdopen() associates a stream with the file descriptor fd.
File descriptors are obtained from calls like open(2V),
dup(2V), creat(2V), or pipe(2V), which open files but do not
return streams. Streams are necessary input for many of the
Section 3S library routines. The type of the stream must
agree with the access permissions of the open file.
...and so on...
--
________________ cut here _________________________
Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-W4400 Muenster
eMail: julian@math.uni-muenster.de, jr@ms.maus.de
________ correct me if I'm wrong __________________