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.TH FOPEN 3 2002-01-03 "BSD MANPAGE" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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fopen, fdopen, freopen \- stream open functions
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <stdio.h>
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.sp
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.BI "FILE *fopen(const char *" path ", const char *" mode );
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.br
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.BI "FILE *fdopen(int " fildes ", const char *" mode );
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.br
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.BI "FILE *freopen(const char *" path ", const char *" mode ", FILE *" stream );
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B fopen
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function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
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.I path
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and associates a stream with it.
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.PP
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The argument
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.I mode
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points to a string beginning with one of the following sequences
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(Additional characters may follow these sequences.):
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.TP
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.B r
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Open text file for reading. The stream is positioned at the beginning of
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the file.
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.TP
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.B r+
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Open for reading and writing. The stream is positioned at the beginning of
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the file.
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.TP
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.B w
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Truncate file to zero length or create text file for writing. The stream
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is positioned at the beginning of the file.
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.TP
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.B w+
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Open for reading and writing. The file is created if it does not exist,
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otherwise it is truncated. The stream is positioned at the beginning of
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the file.
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.TP
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.B a
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Open for appending (writing at end of file). The file is created
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if it does not exist. The stream is positioned at the end of the file.
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.TP
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.B a+
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Open for reading and appending (writing at end of file). The file
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is created if it does not exist.
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The stream is positioned at the end of the file.
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.PP
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The
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.I mode
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string can also include the letter ``b'' either as a last character or as
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a character between the characters in any of the two-character strings
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described above. This is strictly for compatibility with ANSI X3.159-1989
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(``ANSI C'') and has no effect; the ``b'' is ignored on all POSIX
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conforming systems, including Linux.
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(Other systems may treat text files and binary files differently,
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and adding the ``b'' may be a good idea if you do I/O to a binary
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file and expect that your program may be ported to non-Unix
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environments.)
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.PP
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Any created files will have mode
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.BR S_IRUSR \&| S_IWUSR \&| S_IRGRP \&| S_IWGRP \&| S_IROTH \&| S_IWOTH
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(0666), as modified by the process' umask value (see
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.BR umask (2)).
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.PP
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Reads and writes may be intermixed on read/write streams in any order.
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Note that ANSI C requires that a file positioning function intervene
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between output and input, unless an input operation encounters end-of-file.
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(If this condition is not met, then a read is allowed to return the
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result of writes other than the most recent.)
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Therefore it is good practice (and indeed sometimes necessary
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under Linux) to put an
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.B fseek
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or
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.B fgetpos
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operation between write and read operations on such a stream. This
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operation may be an apparent no-op (as in \fIfseek(..., 0L,
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SEEK_CUR)\fR called for its synchronizing side effect.
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.PP
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Opening a file in append mode (\fBa\fR as the first character of
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.IR mode )
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causes all subsequent write operations to this stream to occur
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at end-of-file, as if preceded by an
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.RS
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fseek(stream,0,SEEK_END);
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.RE
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call.
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.PP
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The
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.B fdopen
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function associates a stream with the existing file descriptor,
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.IR fildes .
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The
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.I mode
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of the stream (one of the values "r", "r+", "w", "w+", "a", "a+")
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must be compatible with the mode of the file descriptor.
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The file position indicator of the new stream is set to that
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belonging to
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.IR fildes ,
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and the error and end-of-file indicators are cleared.
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Modes "w" or "w+" do not cause truncation of the file.
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The file descriptor is not dup'ed, and will be closed when
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the stream created by
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.B fdopen
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is closed.
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The result of applying
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.B fdopen
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to a shared memory object is undefined.
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.PP
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The
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.B freopen
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function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
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.I path
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and associates the stream pointed to by
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.I stream
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with it. The original stream (if it exists) is closed. The
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.I mode
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argument is used just as in the
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.B fopen
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function. The primary use of the
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.B freopen
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function is to change the file associated with a standard text stream
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.IR "" ( stderr ", " stdin ", or " stdout ).
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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Upon successful completion
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.BR fopen ,
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.B fdopen
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and
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.B freopen
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return a
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.B FILE
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pointer. Otherwise,
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.B NULL
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is returned and the global variable
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.I errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B EINVAL
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The
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.I mode
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provided to
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.BR fopen ,
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.BR fdopen ,
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or
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.B freopen
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was invalid.
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.PP
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The
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.BR fopen ,
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.B fdopen
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and
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.B freopen
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functions may also fail and set
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.I errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routine
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.BR malloc (3).
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.PP
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The
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.B fopen
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function may also fail and set
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.I errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routine
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.BR open (2).
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.PP
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The
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.B fdopen
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function may also fail and set
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.I errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routine
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.BR fcntl (2).
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.PP
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The
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.B freopen
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function may also fail and set
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.I errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routines
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.BR open (2),
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.BR fclose (3)
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and
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.BR fflush (3).
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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The
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.B fopen
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and
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.B freopen
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functions conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C''). The
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.B fdopen
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function conforms to IEEE Std1003.1-1988 (``POSIX.1'').
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR open (2),
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.BR fclose (3),
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.BR fileno (3)
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