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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3,
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.\" on Information Processing Systems.
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.\"
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)fread.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/8/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd March 8, 1994
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.Dt FREAD 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm fread ,
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.Nm fwrite
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.Nd binary stream input/output
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In stdio.h
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.Ft size_t
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.Fn fread "void * restrict ptr" "size_t size" "size_t nmemb" "FILE * restrict stream"
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.Ft size_t
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.Fn fwrite "const void * restrict ptr" "size_t size" "size_t nmemb" "FILE * restrict stream"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The function
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.Fn fread
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reads
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.Fa nmemb
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objects, each
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.Fa size
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bytes long, from the stream pointed to by
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.Fa stream ,
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storing them at the location given by
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.Fa ptr .
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn fwrite
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writes
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.Fa nmemb
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objects, each
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.Fa size
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bytes long, to the stream pointed to by
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.Fa stream ,
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obtaining them from the location given by
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.Fa ptr .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The functions
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.Fn fread
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and
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.Fn fwrite
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advance the file position indicator for the stream
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by the number of bytes read or written.
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They return the number of objects read or written.
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If an error occurs, or the end-of-file is reached,
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the return value is a short object count (or zero).
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn fread
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does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers
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must use
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.Xr feof 3
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and
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.Xr ferror 3
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to determine which occurred.
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The function
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.Fn fwrite
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returns a value less than
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.Fa nmemb
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only if a write error has occurred.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr read 2 ,
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.Xr write 2
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The functions
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.Fn fread
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and
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.Fn fwrite
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conform to
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.St -isoC .
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