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48 .Nd stream buffering operations
54 .Fn setbuf "FILE *stream" "char *buf"
56 .Fn setbuffer "FILE *stream" "char *buf" "int size"
58 .Fn setlinebuf "FILE *stream"
60 .Fn setvbuf "FILE *stream" "char *buf" "int mode" "size_t size"
62 The three types of buffering available are unbuffered, block buffered,
64 When an output stream is unbuffered, information appears on the
65 destination file or terminal as soon as written;
66 when it is block buffered many characters are saved up and written as a block;
67 when it is line buffered characters are saved up until a newline is
68 output or input is read from any stream attached to a terminal device
72 may be used to force the block out early.
76 Normally all files are block buffered.
79 operation occurs on a file,
82 and an optimally-sized buffer is obtained.
83 If a stream refers to a terminal
86 normally does) it is line buffered.
87 The standard error stream
94 may be used to alter the buffering behavior of a stream.
97 parameter must be one of the following three macros:
98 .Bl -tag -width _IOFBF -offset indent
109 parameter may be given as zero
110 to obtain deferred optimal-size buffer allocation as usual.
112 then except for unbuffered files, the
114 argument should point to a buffer at least
117 this buffer will be used instead of the current buffer.
125 a buffer of the given size will be allocated immediately,
126 and released on close.
127 This is an extension to ANSI C;
128 portable code should use a size of 0 with any
134 function may be used at any time,
135 but may have peculiar side effects
136 (such as discarding input or flushing output)
137 if the stream is ``active''.
138 Portable applications should call it only once on any given stream,
143 The other three calls are, in effect, simply aliases for calls to
145 Except for the lack of a return value, the
147 function is exactly equivalent to the call
149 .Dl "setvbuf(stream, buf, buf ? _IOFBF : _IONBF, BUFSIZ);"
154 is the same, except that the size of the buffer is up to the caller,
155 rather than being determined by the default
160 is exactly equivalent to the call:
162 .Dl "setvbuf(stream, (char *)NULL, _IOLBF, 0);"
166 function returns 0 on success, or
168 if the request cannot be honored
169 (note that the stream is still functional in this case).
173 function returns what the equivalent
196 functions are not portable to versions of
206 always uses a suboptimal buffer size and should be avoided.