Fixed a few ancient typos, added a little missing stuff, and updated

references to abort() in light of POSIX mandated behaviour.  I'm
still not 100% happy with much of the wording, but it's better
than it was.
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Stephen McKay 1998-03-08 15:15:33 +00:00
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@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ to a terminal) then a
.Em file position indicator
associated with the stream is positioned at the start of the file (byte
zero), unless the file is opened with append mode. If append mode
is used, the position indicator will be placed the end-of-file.
is used, the position indicator will be placed at the end-of-file.
The position indicator is maintained by subsequent reads, writes
and positioning requests. All input occurs as if the characters
were read by successive calls to the
.Xr fgetc 3
function; all output takes place as if all characters were
read by successive calls to the
written by successive calls to the
.Xr fputc 3
function.
.Pp
@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Output streams are flushed (any unwritten buffer contents are transferred
to the host environment) before the stream is disassociated from the file.
The value of a pointer to a
.Dv FILE
object is indeterminate after a file is closed (garbage).
object is indeterminate (garbage) after a file is closed.
.Pp
A file may be subsequently reopened, by the same or another program
execution, and its contents reclaimed or modified (if it can be repositioned
@ -90,12 +90,15 @@ the
.Xr exit 3
function is called, all open files are closed (hence all output
streams are flushed) before program termination. Other methods
of program termination, such as
of program termination may not close files properly and hence
buffered output may be lost. In particular,
.Xr _exit 2
does not flush stdio files. Neither does an exit due to a signal.
Buffers are flushed by
.Xr abort 3
do not bother about closing files properly.
as required by POSIX, although previous implementations did not.
.Pp
This implementation needs and makes
no distinction between
This implementation makes no distinction between
.Dq text
and
.Dq binary
@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ In fact,
freshly-opened streams that refer to terminal devices
default to line buffering, and
pending output to such streams is written automatically
whenever an such an input stream is read.
whenever such an input stream is read.
Note that this applies only to
.Dq "true reads" ;
if the read request can be satisfied by existing buffered data,
@ -152,10 +155,7 @@ The
.Nm stdio
library is a part of the library
.Nm libc
and routines are automatically loaded as needed by the compilers
.Xr cc 1
and
.Xr pc 1 .
and routines are automatically loaded as needed by the C compiler.
The
.Tn SYNOPSIS
sections of the following manual pages indicate which include files
@ -174,15 +174,16 @@ without first removing their current definitions with
.Dv L_ctermid ,
.Dv L_tmpnam,
.Dv NULL ,
.Dv P_tmpdir,
.Dv SEEK_CUR ,
.Dv SEEK_END ,
.Dv SEEK_SET ,
.Dv SEE_CUR ,
.Dv TMP_MAX ,
.Dv clearerr ,
.Dv feof ,
.Dv ferror ,
.Dv fileno ,
.Dv freopen ,
.Dv fropen ,
.Dv fwopen ,
.Dv getc ,
.Dv getchar ,
@ -190,18 +191,19 @@ without first removing their current definitions with
.Dv putchar ,
.Dv stderr ,
.Dv stdin ,
.Dv stdout .
.Dv stdout ,
.Dv vfscanf .
Function versions of the macro functions
.Fn clearerr ,
.Fn feof ,
.Fn ferror ,
.Fn clearerr ,
.Fn fileno ,
.Fn getc ,
.Fn getchar ,
.Fn putc ,
and
.Fn putchar
exist and will be used if the macros
exist and will be used if the macro
definitions are explicitly removed.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr close 2 ,
@ -211,9 +213,7 @@ definitions are explicitly removed.
.Sh BUGS
The standard buffered functions do not interact well with certain other
library and system functions, especially
.Xr vfork 2
and
.Xr abort 3 .
.Xr vfork 2 .
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm stdio
@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ library conforms to
.Sh LIST OF FUNCTIONS
.Bl -column "Description"
.Sy Function Description
asprintf formatted output conversion
clearerr check and reset stream status
fclose close a stream
fdopen stream open functions
@ -252,6 +253,7 @@ getc get next character or word from input stream
getchar get next character or word from input stream
gets get a line from a stream
getw get next character or word from input stream
mkdtemp create unique temporary file
mkstemp create unique temporary file
mktemp create unique temporary file
perror system error messages
@ -277,6 +279,7 @@ tempnam temporary file routines
tmpfile temporary file routines
tmpnam temporary file routines
ungetc un-get character from input stream
vasprintf formatted output conversion
vfprintf formatted output conversion
vfscanf input format conversion
vprintf formatted output conversion