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33.Dd March 19, 2004
34.Dt FUNOPEN 3
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm funopen ,
38.Nm fropen ,
39.Nm fwopen
40.Nd open a stream
41.Sh LIBRARY
42.Lb libc
43.Sh SYNOPSIS
44.In stdio.h
45.Ft FILE *
46.Fn funopen "const void *cookie" "int (*readfn)(void *, char *, int)" "int (*writefn)(void *, const char *, int)" "fpos_t (*seekfn)(void *, fpos_t, int)" "int (*closefn)(void *)"
47.Ft FILE *
48.Fn fropen "void *cookie" "int (*readfn)(void *, char *, int)"
49.Ft FILE *
50.Fn fwopen "void *cookie" "int (*writefn)(void *, const char *, int)"
51.Sh DESCRIPTION
52The
53.Fn funopen
54function
55associates a stream with up to four
56.Dq Tn I/O No functions .
57Either
58.Fa readfn
59or
60.Fa writefn
61must be specified;
62the others can be given as an appropriately-typed
63.Dv NULL
64pointer.
65These
66.Tn I/O
67functions will be used to read, write, seek and
68close the new stream.
69.Pp
70In general, omitting a function means that any attempt to perform the
71associated operation on the resulting stream will fail.
72If the close function is omitted, closing the stream will flush
73any buffered output and then succeed.
74.Pp
75The calling conventions of
76.Fa readfn ,
77.Fa writefn ,
78.Fa seekfn
79and
80.Fa closefn
81must match those, respectively, of
82.Xr read 2 ,
83.Xr write 2 ,
84.Xr lseek 2 ,
85and
86.Xr close 2
87with the single exception that they are passed the
88.Fa cookie
89argument specified to
90.Fn funopen
91in place of the traditional file descriptor argument.
92.Pp
93Read and write
94.Tn I/O
95functions are allowed to change the underlying buffer
96on fully buffered or line buffered streams by calling
97.Xr setvbuf 3 .
98They are also not required to completely fill or empty the buffer.
99They are not, however, allowed to change streams from unbuffered to buffered
100or to change the state of the line buffering flag.
101They must also be prepared to have read or write calls occur on buffers other
102than the one most recently specified.
103.Pp
104All user
105.Tn I/O
106functions can report an error by returning \-1.
107Additionally, all of the functions should set the external variable
108.Va errno
109appropriately if an error occurs.
110.Pp
111An error on
112.Fn closefn
113does not keep the stream open.
114.Pp
115As a convenience, the include file
116.In stdio.h
117defines the macros
118.Fn fropen
119and
120.Fn fwopen
121as calls to
122.Fn funopen
123with only a read or write function specified.
124.Sh RETURN VALUES
125Upon successful completion,
126.Fn funopen
127returns a
128.Dv FILE
129pointer.
130Otherwise,
131.Dv NULL
132is returned and the global variable
133.Va errno
134is set to indicate the error.
135.Sh ERRORS
136.Bl -tag -width Er
137.It Bq Er EINVAL
138The
139.Fn funopen
140function
141was called without either a read or write function.
142The
143.Fn funopen
144function
145may also fail and set
146.Va errno
147for any of the errors
148specified for the routine
149.Xr malloc 3 .
150.El
151.Sh SEE ALSO
152.Xr fcntl 2 ,
153.Xr open 2 ,
154.Xr fclose 3 ,
155.Xr fopen 3 ,
156.Xr fseek 3 ,
157.Xr setbuf 3
158.Sh HISTORY
159The
160.Fn funopen
161functions first appeared in
162.Bx 4.4 .
163.Sh BUGS
164The
165.Fn funopen
166function
167may not be portable to systems other than
168.Bx .
169.Pp
170The
171.Fn funopen
172interface erroneously assumes that
173.Vt fpos_t
174is an integral type; see
175.Xr fseek 3
176for a discussion of this issue.
177