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36 #ifndef _futil_h
37 #define _futil_h
39 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
40 #include <config.h>
41 #endif
43 #include <stdio.h>
44 #include "typedefs.h"
46 #ifdef __cplusplus
47 extern "C" {
48 #endif
50 /* Native windows uses backslash path separators.
51 * Cygwin and everybody else in the world use slash.
52 * When reading the PATH environment variable, Unix separates entries
53 * with colon, while windows uses semicolon.
55 #if ((defined WIN32 || defined _WIN32 || defined WIN64 || defined _WIN64) && !defined __CYGWIN__ && !defined __CYGWIN32__)
56 #define DIR_SEPARATOR '\\'
57 #define PATH_SEPARATOR ";"
58 #else
59 #define DIR_SEPARATOR '/'
60 #define PATH_SEPARATOR ":"
61 #endif
64 /* Now get the maximum path size. */
65 #ifdef PATH_MAX
66 #define GMX_PATH_MAX PATH_MAX
67 #else
68 #ifdef MAX_PATH
69 #define GMX_PATH_MAX MAX_PATH
70 #else
71 #define GMX_PATH_MAX 4096
72 #endif
73 #endif
76 extern void no_buffers(void);
77 /* Turn off buffering of files (which is default) for debugging purposes */
79 extern bool gmx_fexist(const char *fname);
80 /* Return TRUE when fname exists, FALSE otherwise */
82 bool gmx_fexist_master(const char *fname, t_commrec *cr);
83 /* Return TRUE when fname exists, FALSE otherwise, bcast from master to others */
85 extern bool gmx_eof(FILE *fp);
86 /* Return TRUE on end-of-file, FALSE otherwise */
88 extern bool is_pipe(FILE *fp);
89 /* Check whether the file (opened by ffopen) is a pipe */
91 /* Make a backup of file if necessary.
92 Return false if there was a problem.
94 extern bool make_backup(const char * file);
96 extern FILE *ffopen(const char *file, const char *mode);
97 /* Return a valid file pointer when successful, exits otherwise
98 * If the file is in compressed format, open a pipe which uncompresses
99 * the file! Therefore, files must be closed with ffclose (see below)
102 extern int ffclose(FILE *fp);
103 /* Close files or pipes */
106 extern void frewind(FILE *fp);
107 /* Does not rewind pipes, but does so for normal files */
109 #define rewind frewind
111 bool is_pipe(FILE *fp);
113 extern char *gmxlibfn(const char *file);
114 /* allocates and returns a string with the full file name for a library file */
116 extern FILE *libopen(const char *file);
117 /* Open a library file for reading. This looks in the current directory
118 * first, and then in the library directory. If the file is not found,
119 * it terminates with a fatal_error
122 extern bool get_libdir(char *libdir);
124 extern char *low_gmxlibfn(const char *file,bool bFatal);
126 extern FILE *low_libopen(const char *file,bool bFatal);
127 /* The same as the above, but does not terminate if (!bFatal) */
129 /* Create unique name for temp file (wrapper around mkstemp).
130 * Buf should be at least 7 bytes long
132 extern void gmx_tmpnam(char *buf);
134 /* truncte the file to the specified length */
135 int gmx_truncatefile(char *path, off_t length);
137 /* rename/move the file (atomically, if the OS makes that available) oldname
138 to newname */
139 int gmx_file_rename(const char *oldname, const char *newname);
141 /* copy the file (data only) oldname to newname. if copy_if_empty==FALSE,
142 the file won't be copied if it's empty.*/
143 int gmx_file_copy(const char *oldname, const char *newname, bool copy_if_empty);
145 #ifdef __cplusplus
147 #endif
149 #endif /* _futil_h */