.TH INTRO 3S
.UC
.SH NAME
stdio \- standard buffered input/output package
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <stdio.h>
.PP
.SM
.B FILE
.B *stdin;
.br
.SM
.B FILE
.B *stdout;
.br
.SM
.B FILE
.B *stderr;
.SH DESCRIPTION
The functions described in section 3S constitute a user-level buffering
scheme.  The in-line macros
.I getc
and
.IR  putc (3S)
handle characters quickly.  The higher level routines
.IR gets ,
.IR fgets ,
.IR scanf ,
.IR fscanf ,
.IR fread ,
.IR puts ,
.IR fputs ,
.IR printf ,
.IR fprintf ,
.IR fwrite
all use
.I getc
and
.IR putc ;
they can be freely intermixed.
.PP
A file with associated buffering is called a
.IR stream ,
and is declared to be a pointer to a defined type
.SM
.BR FILE .
.IR  Fopen (3S)
creates certain descriptive data for a stream
and returns a pointer to designate the stream in all further transactions.
There are three normally open streams with constant pointers declared in
the include file and associated with the standard open files:
.TP 10n
.B stdin
standard input file
.br
.ns
.TP
.B stdout
standard output file
.br
.ns
.TP
.B stderr
standard error file
.PP
A constant `pointer'
.SM
.B NULL
(0)
designates no stream at all.
.PP
An integer constant
.SM
.B EOF
(\-1) is returned upon end of file or error by integer functions that
deal with streams.
.PP
Any routine that uses the standard input/output package
must include the header file
.RI < stdio.h >
of pertinent macro definitions.
The functions and constants mentioned in sections labeled 3S
are declared in the include file and need no further declaration.
The constants, and the following `functions' are
implemented as macros; redeclaration of these names is perilous:
.IR getc ,
.IR getchar ,
.IR putc ,
.IR putchar ,
.IR feof ,
.IR ferror ,
.IR fileno .
.SH "SEE ALSO"
close(2), open(2), read(2), write(2), f*(3S)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
The value
.SM
.B EOF
is returned uniformly to indicate that a
.SM
.B FILE
pointer has not been initialized with
.IR fopen ,
input (output) has been attempted on an output (input) stream, or a
.SM
.B FILE
pointer designates corrupt or otherwise unintelligible
.SM
.B FILE
data.
.PP
For purposes of efficiency, this implementation of the standard library
has been changed to line buffer output to a terminal by default and attempts
to do this transparently by flushing the output whenever a 
.IR read (2)
from the standard input is necessary.  This is almost always transparent,
but may cause confusion or malfunctioning of programs which use
standard i/o routines but use
.IR read (2)
themselves to read from the standard input.
.PP
In cases where a large amount of computation is done after printing
part of a line on an output terminal, it is necessary to
.IR fflush (3S)
the standard output before going off and computing so that the output
will appear.
.SH BUGS
The standard buffered functions do not interact well with certain other
library and system functions, especially \fIvfork\fP and \fIabort\fP.
.SH "LIST OF FUNCTIONS"
.sp 2
.nf
.ta \w'setlinebuf'u+2n +\w'setbuf.3s'u+10n
\fIName\fP	\fIAppears on Page\fP	\fIDescription\fP
.ta \w'setlinebuf'u+4n +\w'setbuf.3s'u+4n
.sp 5p
clearerr	ferror.3s	stream status inquiries
fclose	fclose.3s	close or flush a stream
feof	ferror.3s	stream status inquiries
ferror	ferror.3s	stream status inquiries
fflush	fclose.3s	close or flush a stream
fgetc	getc.3s	get character or word from stream
fgets	gets.3s	get a string from a stream
fileno	ferror.3s	stream status inquiries
fprintf	printf.3s	formatted output conversion
fputc	putc.3s	put character or word on a stream
fputs	puts.3s	put a string on a stream
fread	fread.3s	buffered binary input/output
fscanf	scanf.3s	formatted input conversion
fseek	fseek.3s	reposition a stream
ftell	fseek.3s	reposition a stream
fwrite	fread.3s	buffered binary input/output
getc	getc.3s	get character or word from stream
getchar	getc.3s	get character or word from stream
gets	gets.3s	get a string from a stream
getw	getc.3s	get character or word from stream
pclose	popen.3s	initiate I/O to/from a process
popen	popen.3s	initiate I/O to/from a process
printf	printf.3s	formatted output conversion
putc	putc.3s	put character or word on a stream
putchar	putc.3s	put character or word on a stream
puts	puts.3s	put a string on a stream
putw	putc.3s	put character or word on a stream
rewind	fseek.3s	reposition a stream
scanf	scanf.3s	formatted input conversion
setbuf	setbuf.3s	assign buffering to a stream
sprintf	printf.3s	formatted output conversion
sscanf	scanf.3s	formatted input conversion
system	system.3s	issue a shell command
ungetc	ungetc.3s	push character back into input stream
.fi