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Standard C Library Functionsfreopen(3C)


NAME

 freopen - open a stream

SYNOPSIS

 
#include <stdio.h>
FILE *freopen(const char *filename, const char *mode, FILE *stream);

DESCRIPTION

 

The freopen() function first attempts to flush the stream and close any file descriptor associated with stream. Failure to flush or close the file successfully is ignored. The error and end-of-file indicators for the stream are cleared.

The freopen() function opens the file whose pathname is the string pointed to by filename and associates the stream pointed to by stream with it. The mode argument is used just as in fopen(3C).

The original stream is closed regardless of whether the subsequent open succeeds.

After a successful call to the freopen() function, the orientation of the stream is cleared and the associated mbstate_t object is set to describe an initial conversion state.

The largest value that can be represented correctly in an object of type off_t will be established as the offset maximum in the open file description.

RETURN VALUES

 

Upon successful completion, freopen() returns the value of stream. Otherwise, a null pointer is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

 

The freopen() function will fail if:

EACCES
Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix, or the file exists and the permissions specified by mode are denied, or the file does not exist and write permission is denied for the parent directory of the file to be created.
EINTR
A signal was caught during freopen().
EISDIR
The named file is a directory and mode requires write access.
ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving path.
EMFILE
There are OPEN_MAX file descriptors currently open in the calling process.
ENAMETOOLONG
The length of the filename exceeds PATH_MAX or a pathname component is longer than NAME_MAX.
ENFILE
The maximum allowable number of files is currently open in the system.
ENOENT
A component of filename does not name an existing file or filename is an empty string.
ENOSPC
The directory or file system that would contain the new file cannot be expanded, the file does not exist, and it was to be created.
ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
ENXIO
The named file is a character special or block special file, and the device associated with this special file does not exist.
EOVERFLOW
The current value of the file position cannot be represented correctly in an object of type off_t.
EROFS
The named file resides on a read-only file system and mode requires write access.

The freopen() function may fail if:

EINVAL
The value of the mode argument is not valid.
ENAMETOOLONG
Pathname resolution of a symbolic link produced an intermediate result whose length exceeds PATH_MAX.
ENOMEM
Insufficient storage space is available.
ENXIO
A request was made of a non-existent device, or the request was outside the capabilities of the device.
ETXTBSY
The file is a pure procedure (shared text) file that is being executed and mode requires write access.

USAGE

 

The freopen() function is typically used to attach the preopened streams associated with stdin, stdout and stderr to other files. By default stderr is unbuffered, but the use of freopen() will cause it to become buffered or line-buffered.

The freopen() function has a transitional interface for 64-bit file offsets. See lf64(5).

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
MT-LevelMT-Safe

SEE ALSO

 

fclose(3C), fdopen(3C), fopen(3C), stdio(3C), attributes(5), lf64(5)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 3 Feb 1998

 
      
      
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