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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/setbuf.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/setbuf.3 | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man3/setbuf.3 b/man3/setbuf.3 index f1d61dd3..d0128484 100644 --- a/man3/setbuf.3 +++ b/man3/setbuf.3 @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ normally does) it is line buffered. The standard error stream is always unbuffered by default. .PP The -.B setvbuf +.BR setvbuf () function may be used on any open stream to change its buffer. The .I mode @@ -109,14 +109,14 @@ is .BR NULL , only the mode is affected; a new buffer will be allocated on the next read or write operation. The -.B setvbuf +.BR setvbuf () function may only be used after opening a stream and before any other operations have been performed on it. .PP The other three calls are, in effect, simply aliases for calls to -.BR setvbuf . +.BR setvbuf (). The -.B setbuf +.BR setbuf () function is exactly equivalent to the call .PP .RS @@ -124,12 +124,12 @@ setvbuf(stream, buf, buf ? _IOFBF : _IONBF, BUFSIZ); .RE .PP The -.B setbuffer +.BR setbuffer () function is the same, except that the size of the buffer is up to the caller, rather than being determined by the default .BR BUFSIZ . The -.B setlinebuf +.BR setlinebuf () function is exactly equivalent to the call: .PP .RS @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ setvbuf(stream, (char *)NULL, _IOLBF, 0); .RE .SH "RETURN VALUE" The function -.B setvbuf +.BR setvbuf () returns 0 on success. It can return any value on failure, but returns non-zero when .I mode @@ -147,18 +147,18 @@ on failure. The other functions are void. .SH "CONFORMING TO" The -.B setbuf +.BR setbuf () and -.B setvbuf +.BR setvbuf () functions conform to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C''). .SH BUGS The -.B setbuffer +.BR setbuffer () and -.B setlinebuf +.BR setlinebuf () functions are not portable to versions of BSD before 4.2BSD, and are available under Linux since libc 4.5.21. On 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD systems, -.B setbuf +.BR setbuf () always uses a suboptimal buffer size and should be avoided. .P You must make sure that both |