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diff --git a/man/man3/puts.3 b/man/man3/puts.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5724f62 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/puts.3 @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:42:59 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH puts 3 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +fputc, fputs, putc, putchar, puts \- output of characters and strings +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <stdio.h> +.P +.BI "int fputc(int " c ", FILE *" stream ); +.BI "int putc(int " c ", FILE *" stream ); +.BI "int putchar(int " c ); +.P +.BI "int fputs(const char *restrict " s ", FILE *restrict " stream ); +.BI "int puts(const char *" s ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR fputc () +writes the character +.IR c , +cast to an +.IR "unsigned char" , +to +.IR stream . +.P +.BR putc () +is equivalent to +.BR fputc () +except that it may be implemented as a macro which evaluates +.I stream +more than once. +.P +.BI "putchar(" c ) +is equivalent to +.BI "putc(" c ", " stdout ) \fR. +.P +.BR fputs () +writes the string +.I s +to +.IR stream , +without its terminating null byte (\[aq]\e0\[aq]). +.P +.BR puts () +writes the string +.I s +and a trailing newline +to +.IR stdout . +.P +Calls to the functions described here can be mixed with each other and with +calls to other output functions from the +.I stdio +library for the same output stream. +.P +For nonlocking counterparts, see +.BR unlocked_stdio (3). +.SH RETURN VALUE +.BR fputc (), +.BR putc (), +and +.BR putchar () +return the character written as an +.I unsigned char +cast to an +.I int +or +.B EOF +on error. +.P +.BR puts () +and +.BR fputs () +return a nonnegative number on success, or +.B EOF +on error. +.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 fputc (), +.BR fputs (), +.BR putc (), +.BR putchar (), +.BR puts () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH STANDARDS +C11, POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, C89, C99. +.SH BUGS +It is not advisable to mix calls to output functions from the +.I stdio +library with low-level calls to +.BR write (2) +for the file descriptor associated with the same output stream; the results +will be undefined and very probably not what you want. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR write (2), +.BR ferror (3), +.BR fgets (3), +.BR fopen (3), +.BR fputwc (3), +.BR fputws (3), +.BR fseek (3), +.BR fwrite (3), +.BR putwchar (3), +.BR scanf (3), +.BR unlocked_stdio (3) |