hpux man page for stdio

stdio(3S)																 stdio(3S)

NAME
       stdio() - standard buffered input/output stream file package

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       The  Standard  I/O  functions  described  in  the  subsection(3S) entries of this manual constitute an efficient, user-level I/O buffering
       scheme.	The and functions handle characters quickly.  The following functions all use or act as if they use and and can be  freely  inter-
       mixed:

       A  file with associated buffering is called a stream and is declared to be a pointer to a defined type creates certain descriptive data for
       a stream and returns a pointer to designate the stream in all further transactions.  Section(3S) library routines operate on this stream.

       At program startup, three streams, and are predefined and do not need to be explicitly opened.  When opened, the standard input	and  stan-
       dard  output  streams are fully buffered if the output refers to a file and line-buffered if the output refers to a terminal.  The standard
       error output stream is by default unbuffered.  These three streams have the following constant pointers declared in the header file :

	      standard input file
	      standard output file
	      standard error file

       A constant, NULL, (0) designates a nonexistent pointer.

       An integer-constant, (-1) is returned upon end-of-file or error by most integer functions that deal with streams (see  individual  descrip-
       tions for details).

       An integer constant specifies the size of the buffers used by the particular implementation (see setbuf(3S)).

       Any program that uses this package must include the header file of pertinent macro definitions as follows:

       The functions and constants mentioned in subsection(3S) entries of this manual are declared in that header file and need no further decla-
       ration.

       A constant defines the default maximum number of open files allowed per process.  To increase the  open	file  limit  beyond  this  default
       value, see getrlimit(2).

WARNINGS
       Use  of	interfaces with a shared read/write file descriptor on will provide undefined behavior. Applications which are doing operations on
       need to use seperate file pointers for input and output, even if using the same file descriptor for both types of operations.

ERRORS
       Invalid stream pointers usually cause grave disorder, possibly including program termination.  Individual  function  descriptions  describe
       the possible error conditions.

SEE ALSO
       close(2),  lseek(2),  open(2),  pipe(2),  read(2),  getrlimit(2),  write(2), ctermid(3S), cuserid(3S), fclose(3S), ferror(3S), fgetpos(3S),
       fileno(3S), fopen(3S), fread(3S), fseek(3S), fgetpos(3S), getc(3S), gets(3S), popen(3S), printf(3S), putc(3S),  puts(3S),  scanf(3S),  set-
       buf(3S), system(3S), tmpfile(3S), tmpnam(3S), ungetc(3S).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
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