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34 .\" @(#)fread.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/8/94
42 .Nd binary stream input/output
48 .Fn fread "void * restrict ptr" "size_t size" "size_t nmemb" "FILE * restrict stream"
50 .Fn fwrite "const void * restrict ptr" "size_t size" "size_t nmemb" "FILE * restrict stream"
58 bytes long, from the stream pointed to by
60 storing them at the location given by
69 bytes long, to the stream pointed to by
71 obtaining them from the location given by
78 calls without setting the file position explicitly using
80 between read and write or write and read operations will lead to unexpected
81 results because of buffering the file pointer not being set to the
82 expected position after each operation completes.
83 This behavior is allowed by ANSI C for efficiency and it will not be changed.
89 advance the file position indicator for the stream
90 by the number of bytes read or written.
91 They return the number of objects read or written.
96 is 0, the functions return 0 and the state of
99 If an error occurs, or the end-of-file is reached,
100 the return value is a short object count (or zero).
104 does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers
109 to determine which occurred.
112 returns a value less than
114 only if a write error has occurred.