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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:40:15 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 6.05.01.upstream/6.05.01
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diff --git a/man3/fgetws.3 b/man3/fgetws.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa2a208 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/fgetws.3 @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" GNU glibc-2 source code and manual +.\" Dinkumware C library reference http://www.dinkumware.com/ +.\" OpenGroup's Single UNIX specification +.\" http://www.UNIX-systems.org/online.html +.\" ISO/IEC 9899:1999 +.\" +.\" Modified Tue Oct 16 23:18:40 BST 2001 by John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> +.TH fgetws 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +fgetws \- read a wide-character string from a FILE stream +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <wchar.h> +.PP +.BI "wchar_t *fgetws(wchar_t " ws "[restrict ." n "], int " n \ +", FILE *restrict " stream ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR fgetws () +function is the wide-character equivalent +of the +.BR fgets (3) +function. +It reads a string of at most \fIn\-1\fP wide characters into the +wide-character array pointed to by \fIws\fP, +and adds a terminating null wide character (L\[aq]\e0\[aq]). +It stops reading wide characters after it has encountered and +stored a newline wide character. +It also stops when end of stream is reached. +.PP +The programmer must ensure that there is room for at least \fIn\fP wide +characters at \fIws\fP. +.PP +For a nonlocking counterpart, see +.BR unlocked_stdio (3). +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR fgetws () +function, if successful, returns \fIws\fP. +If end of stream +was already reached or if an error occurred, it returns NULL. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR fgetws () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C99. +.SH NOTES +The behavior of +.BR fgetws () +depends on the +.B LC_CTYPE +category of the +current locale. +.PP +In the absence of additional information passed to the +.BR fopen (3) +call, it is +reasonable to expect that +.BR fgetws () +will actually read a multibyte string +from the stream and then convert it to a wide-character string. +.PP +This function is unreliable, +because it does not permit to deal properly with +null wide characters that may be present in the input. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR fgetwc (3), +.BR unlocked_stdio (3) |