1 /* fflush.c -- allow flushing input streams
2 Copyright (C) 2007-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
7 License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Eric Blake. */
29 #include "stdio-impl.h"
34 #if defined _IO_EOF_SEEN || defined _IO_ftrylockfile || __GNU_LIBRARY__ == 1
35 /* GNU libc, BeOS, Haiku, Linux libc5 */
37 /* Clear the stream's ungetc buffer, preserving the value of ftello (fp). */
39 clear_ungetc_buffer_preserving_position (FILE *fp
)
41 if (fp
->_flags
& _IO_IN_BACKUP
)
42 /* _IO_free_backup_area is a bit complicated. Simply call fseek. */
43 fseeko (fp
, 0, SEEK_CUR
);
48 /* Clear the stream's ungetc buffer. May modify the value of ftello (fp). */
50 clear_ungetc_buffer (FILE *fp
)
52 # if defined __sferror || defined __DragonFly__ || defined __ANDROID__
53 /* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly, Mac OS X, Cygwin, Minix 3, Android */
59 # elif defined __EMX__ /* emx+gcc */
60 if (fp
->_ungetc_count
> 0)
62 fp
->_ungetc_count
= 0;
63 fp
->_rcount
= - fp
->_rcount
;
65 # elif defined _IOERR /* Minix, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, OSF/1, Solaris, OpenServer, UnixWare, mingw, MSVC, NonStop Kernel, OpenVMS */
67 # else /* other implementations */
68 fseeko (fp
, 0, SEEK_CUR
);
74 #if ! (defined _IO_EOF_SEEN || defined _IO_ftrylockfile || __GNU_LIBRARY__ == 1)
75 /* GNU libc, BeOS, Haiku, Linux libc5 */
77 # if (defined __sferror || defined __DragonFly__ || defined __ANDROID__) && defined __SNPT
78 /* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly, Mac OS X, Cygwin, Minix 3, Android */
81 disable_seek_optimization (FILE *fp
)
83 int saved_flags
= fp_
->_flags
& (__SOPT
| __SNPT
);
84 fp_
->_flags
= (fp_
->_flags
& ~__SOPT
) | __SNPT
;
89 restore_seek_optimization (FILE *fp
, int saved_flags
)
91 fp_
->_flags
= (fp_
->_flags
& ~(__SOPT
| __SNPT
)) | saved_flags
;
97 update_fpos_cache (_GL_ATTRIBUTE_MAYBE_UNUSED
FILE *fp
,
98 _GL_ATTRIBUTE_MAYBE_UNUSED off_t pos
)
100 # if defined __sferror || defined __DragonFly__ || defined __ANDROID__
101 /* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly, Mac OS X, Cygwin, Minix 3, Android */
102 # if defined __CYGWIN__ || defined __ANDROID__
103 /* fp_->_offset is typed as an integer. */
106 /* fp_->_offset is an fpos_t. */
107 /* Use a union, since on NetBSD, the compilation flags determine
108 whether fpos_t is typedef'd to off_t or a struct containing a
109 single off_t member. */
118 fp_
->_flags
|= __SOFF
;
124 /* Flush all pending data on STREAM according to POSIX rules. Both
125 output and seekable input streams are supported. */
127 rpl_fflush (FILE *stream
)
129 /* When stream is NULL, POSIX and C99 only require flushing of "output
130 streams and update streams in which the most recent operation was not
131 input", and all implementations do this.
133 When stream is "an output stream or an update stream in which the most
134 recent operation was not input", POSIX and C99 requires that fflush
135 writes out any buffered data, and all implementations do this.
137 When stream is, however, an input stream or an update stream in
138 which the most recent operation was input, C99 specifies nothing,
139 and POSIX only specifies behavior if the stream is seekable.
140 mingw, in particular, drops the input buffer, leaving the file
141 descriptor positioned at the end of the input buffer. I.e. ftell
142 (stream) is lost. We don't want to call the implementation's
145 We test ! freading (stream) here, rather than fwriting (stream), because
146 what we need to know is whether the stream holds a "read buffer", and on
147 mingw this is indicated by _IOREAD, regardless of _IOWRT. */
148 if (stream
== NULL
|| ! freading (stream
))
149 return fflush (stream
);
151 #if defined _IO_EOF_SEEN || defined _IO_ftrylockfile || __GNU_LIBRARY__ == 1
152 /* GNU libc, BeOS, Haiku, Linux libc5 */
154 clear_ungetc_buffer_preserving_position (stream
);
156 return fflush (stream
);
161 1) About the file-position indicator (-> fseeko, ftello):
162 The file position indicator is incremented by fgetc() and decremented
164 <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fgetc.html>
165 "... the fgetc() function shall ... advance the associated file
166 position indicator for the stream ..."
167 <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ungetc.html>
168 "The file-position indicator is decremented by each successful
170 2) fflush discards bytes pushed back by ungetc:
171 <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fflush.html>
172 "...any characters pushed back onto the stream by ungetc()
173 or ungetwc() that have not subsequently been read from the
174 stream shall be discarded..."
175 This implies implicitly: fflush does not change the file position
177 3) Effects on the file descriptor, if the file descriptor is capable of
179 <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fflush.html>
180 "...the file offset of the underlying open file description shall
181 be set to the file position of the stream..." */
183 /* POSIX does not specify fflush behavior for non-seekable input
184 streams. Some implementations purge unread data, some return
185 EBADF, some do nothing. */
186 off_t pos
= ftello (stream
);
193 /* Clear the ungetc buffer. */
194 clear_ungetc_buffer (stream
);
196 /* To get here, we must be flushing a seekable input stream, so the
197 semantics of fpurge are now appropriate to clear the buffer. To
198 avoid losing data, the lseek is also necessary. */
200 int result
= fpurge (stream
);
205 # if (defined __sferror || defined __DragonFly__ || defined __ANDROID__) && defined __SNPT
206 /* FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly, Mac OS X, Cygwin, Minix 3, Android */
209 /* Disable seek optimization for the next fseeko call. This tells the
210 following fseeko call to seek to the desired position directly, rather
211 than to seek to a block-aligned boundary. */
212 int saved_flags
= disable_seek_optimization (stream
);
213 int result
= fseeko (stream
, pos
, SEEK_SET
);
215 restore_seek_optimization (stream
, saved_flags
);
221 pos
= lseek (fileno (stream
), pos
, SEEK_SET
);
224 /* After a successful lseek, update the file descriptor's position cache
226 update_fpos_cache (stream
, pos
);