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6.3 KiB
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257 lines
6.3 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: fopen.3,v 1.10 2000/01/15 01:11:45 christos Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3,
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.\" on Information Processing Systems.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)fopen.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt FOPEN 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm fopen ,
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.Nm fdopen ,
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.Nm freopen
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.Nd stream open functions
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <stdio.h>
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.Ft FILE *
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.Fn fopen "const char *path" "const char *mode"
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.Ft FILE *
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.Fn fdopen "int fildes" "const char *mode"
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.Ft FILE *
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.Fn freopen "const char *path" "const char *mode" "FILE *stream"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn fopen
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function
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opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
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.Fa 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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.Fa mode
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points to a string beginning with one of the following
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sequences (Additional characters may follow these sequences.):
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Dq Li r
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Open text file for reading.
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.It Dq Li r+
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Open for reading and writing.
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.It Dq Li w
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Truncate file to zero length or create text file for writing.
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.It Dq Li w+
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Open for reading and writing.
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The file is created if it does not exist, otherwise it is truncated.
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.It Dq Li a
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Append; open for writing.
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The file is created if it does not exist.
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.It Dq Li a+
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Append; open for reading and writing.
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The file is created if it does not exist.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Fa mode
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string can also include the letter ``b'' either as a last character or
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as a character between the characters in any of the two-character strings
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described above.
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This is strictly for compatibility with
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.St -ansiC
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and has no effect; the ``b'' is ignored.
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In addition the letter ``f'' in the mode string restricts fopen to plain
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files; if the file opened is not a plain file,
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.Fn fopen
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will fail. This is a non
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.St -ansiC
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extension.
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.Pp
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Any created files will have mode
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.Pf \\*q Dv S_IRUSR
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\&|
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.Dv S_IWUSR
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\&|
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.Dv S_IRGRP
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\&|
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.Dv S_IWGRP
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\&|
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.Dv S_IROTH
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\&|
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.Dv S_IWOTH Ns \\*q
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.Pq Li 0666 ,
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as modified by the process'
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umask value (see
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.Xr umask 2 ) .
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.Pp
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Opening a file with append mode causes all subsequent writes to it
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to be forced to the then current end of file, regardless of intervening
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repositioning of the stream.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fopen
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and
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.Fn freopen
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functions initially position the stream at the start of the file
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unless the file is opened with append mode,
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in which case the stream is initially positioned at the end of the file.
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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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and do not require an intermediate seek as in previous versions of
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.Em stdio .
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This is not portable to other systems, however;
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.Tn ANSI C
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requires that
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a file positioning function intervene between output and input, unless
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an input operation encounters end-of-file.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fdopen
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function associates a stream with the existing file descriptor,
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.Fa fildes .
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The
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.Fa mode
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of the stream must be compatible with the mode of the file descriptor.
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The stream is positioned at the file offset of the file descriptor.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn freopen
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function
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opens the file whose name is the string pointed to by
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.Fa path
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and associates the stream pointed to by
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.Fa stream
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with it.
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The original stream (if it exists) is closed.
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The
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.Fa mode
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argument is used just as in the
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.Fn fopen
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function.
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The primary use of the
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.Fn freopen
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function
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is to change the file associated with a
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standard text stream
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.Pf ( Em stderr ,
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.Em stdin ,
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or
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.Em stdout ) .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion
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.Fn fopen ,
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.Fn fdopen
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and
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.Fn freopen
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return a
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.Tn FILE
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pointer.
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Otherwise,
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.Dv NULL
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is returned and the global variable
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa mode
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provided to
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.Fn fopen ,
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.Fn fdopen ,
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or
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.Fn freopen
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was invalid.
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.It Bq Er EFTYPE
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The file is not a plain file and the character ``f'' is specified
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in the mode.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fopen ,
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.Fn fdopen
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and
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.Fn freopen
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functions
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may also fail and set
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.Va errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routine
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.Xr malloc 3 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fopen
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function
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may also fail and set
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.Va errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routine
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.Xr open 2 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fdopen
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function
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may also fail and set
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.Va errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routine
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.Xr fcntl 2 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn freopen
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function
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may also fail and set
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.Va errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routines
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.Xr open 2 ,
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.Xr fclose 3
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and
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.Xr fflush 3 .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr open 2 ,
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.Xr fclose 3 ,
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.Xr fseek 3 ,
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.Xr funopen 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn fopen
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and
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.Fn freopen
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functions
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conform to
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.St -ansiC .
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The
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.Fn fdopen
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function conforms to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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