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32 .\" @(#)setbuf.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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44 .Nd stream buffering operations
50 .Fn setbuf "FILE * restrict stream" "char * restrict buf"
52 .Fn setbuffer "FILE *stream" "char *buf" "int size"
54 .Fn setlinebuf "FILE *stream"
56 .Fn setvbuf "FILE * restrict stream" "char * restrict buf" "int mode" "size_t size"
58 The three types of buffering available are unbuffered, block buffered,
60 When an output stream is unbuffered, information appears on the
61 destination file or terminal as soon as written;
62 when it is block buffered many characters are saved up and written as a block;
63 when it is line buffered characters are saved up until a newline is
64 output or input is read from any stream attached to a terminal device
69 may be used to force the block out early.
73 Normally all files are block buffered.
76 operation occurs on a file,
79 and an optimally-sized buffer is obtained.
80 If a stream refers to a terminal
83 normally does) it is line buffered.
84 The standard error stream
91 may be used to alter the buffering behavior of a stream.
94 argument must be one of the following three macros:
95 .Bl -tag -width _IOFBF -offset indent
106 argument may be given as zero
107 to obtain deferred optimal-size buffer allocation as usual.
109 then except for unbuffered files, the
111 argument should point to a buffer at least
114 this buffer will be used instead of the current buffer.
119 it is the caller's responsibility to
121 this buffer after closing the stream.
129 a buffer of the given size will be allocated immediately,
130 and released on close.
131 This is an extension to ANSI C;
132 portable code should use a size of 0 with any
138 function may be used at any time,
139 but may have peculiar side effects
140 (such as discarding input or flushing output)
141 if the stream is ``active''.
142 Portable applications should call it only once on any given stream,
147 The other three calls are, in effect, simply aliases for calls to
149 Except for the lack of a return value, the
151 function is exactly equivalent to the call
153 .Dl "setvbuf(stream, buf, buf ? _IOFBF : _IONBF, BUFSIZ);"
158 is the same, except that the size of the buffer is up to the caller,
159 rather than being determined by the default
164 is exactly equivalent to the call:
166 .Dl "setvbuf(stream, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);"
170 function returns 0 on success, or
172 if the request cannot be honored
173 (note that the stream is still functional in this case).
177 function returns what the equivalent
200 functions are not portable to versions of
210 always uses a suboptimal buffer size and should be avoided.