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45 .Nd un-get character from input stream
51 .Fn ungetc "int c" "FILE *stream"
55 function pushes the character
57 (converted to an unsigned char)
58 back onto the input stream pointed to by
60 The pushed-back characters will be returned by subsequent reads on the
61 stream (in reverse order).
62 A successful intervening call,
63 using the same stream,
64 to one of the file positioning functions
69 will discard the pushed back characters.
71 One character of push-back is guaranteed,
72 but as long as there is sufficient memory,
73 an effectively infinite amount of pushback is allowed.
75 If a character is successfully pushed-back,
76 the end-of-file indicator for the stream is cleared.
80 function returns the character pushed-back after the conversion,
83 if the operation fails.
84 If the value of the argument
88 the operation will fail and the stream will remain unchanged.