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FOPEN(3)		 BSD Library Functions Manual		      FOPEN(3)

NAME
     fopen, fdopen, freopen — stream open functions

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdio.h>

     FILE *
     fopen(const char * restrict path, const char * restrict mode);

     FILE *
     fdopen(int fildes, const char *mode);

     FILE *
     freopen(const char * restrict path, const char * restrict mode,
	 FILE * restrict stream);

DESCRIPTION
     The fopen() function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to
     by path and associates a stream with it.

     The argument mode points to a string beginning with one of the following
     sequences (Additional characters may follow these sequences.):

     “a”   Append; open for writing.  The file is created if it does not
	   exist.

     “a+”  Append; open for reading and writing.  The file is created if it
	   does not exist.

     “r”   Open for reading.

     “r+”  Open for reading and writing.

     “w”   Open for writing.  Truncate file to zero length or create file.

     “w+”  Open for reading and writing.  Truncate file to zero length or cre‐
	   ate file.

     Additionally, the mode string can also include one of the following let‐
     ters:

     ‘b’   The letter ‘b’ may appear either as a last character or as a char‐
	   acter between the characters in any of the two-character strings
	   described above.  This is strictly for compatibility with ANSI
	   X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”) and has no effect; the ‘b’ is ignored.

     ‘e’   The letter ‘e’ in the mode string sets the close-on-exec flag in
	   the file descriptors of the newly opened file files; if the opera‐
	   tion fails, fopen() will fail.  This is a non ANSI X3.159-1989
	   (“ANSI C89”) extension.

     ‘f’   The letter ‘f’ in the mode string restricts fopen() to regular
	   files; if the file opened is not a regular file, fopen() will fail.
	   This is a non ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”) extension.

     Any created files will have mode "S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IWGRP |
     S_IROTH | S_IWOTH" (0666), as modified by the process' umask(2) value.

     Opening a file with append mode causes all subsequent writes to it to be
     forced to the then current end of file, regardless of intervening reposi‐
     tioning of the stream.

     The fopen() and freopen() functions initially position the stream at the
     start of the file unless the file is opened with append mode, in which
     case the stream is initially positioned at the end of the file.

     The fdopen() function associates a stream with the existing file descrip‐
     tor, fildes.  The mode of the stream must be compatible with the mode of
     the file descriptor.  The stream is positioned at the file offset of the
     file descriptor.

     The freopen() function opens the file whose name is the string pointed to
     by path and associates the stream pointed to by stream with it.  The
     original stream (if it exists) is closed.	The mode argument is used just
     as in the fopen() function.  The primary use of the freopen() function is
     to change the file associated with a standard text stream (stderr, stdin,
     or stdout).

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion fopen(), fdopen() and freopen() return a FILE
     pointer.  Otherwise, NULL is returned and the global variable errno is
     set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     The functions may fail if:

     [EFTYPE]		The file is not a regular file and the character ``f''
			is specified in the mode.

     [EINVAL]		The specified mode was invalid.

     The fopen(), fdopen() and freopen() functions may also fail and set errno
     for any of the errors specified for the routine malloc(3).

     The fopen() function may also fail and set errno for any of the errors
     specified for the routine open(2).

     The fdopen() function may also fail and set errno for any of the errors
     specified for the routine fcntl(2).

     The freopen() function may also fail and set errno for any of the errors
     specified for the routines open(2), fclose(3) and fflush(3).

SEE ALSO
     open(2), fclose(3), fileno(3), fseek(3), funopen(3)

STANDARDS
     The fopen() and freopen() functions conform to ANSI X3.159-1989
     (“ANSI C89”).  All three functions are specified in IEEE Std 1003.1-2008
     (“POSIX.1”).

CAVEATS
     Proper code using fdopen() with error checking should close(2) fildes in
     case of failure, and fclose(3) the resulting FILE * in case of success.

	     FILE *file;
	     int fd;

	     if ((file = fdopen(fd, "r")) != NULL) {
		     /* perform operations on the FILE * */
		     fclose(file);
	     } else {
		     /* failure, report the error */
		     close(fd);
	     }

BSD				 July 18, 2011				   BSD
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