NAME
fread, fwrite
— binary stream
input/output
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include
<stdio.h>
size_t
fread(void
*restrict ptr, size_t
size, size_t
nitems, FILE *restrict
stream);
size_t
fwrite(const
void *restrict ptr,
size_t size,
size_t nitems,
FILE *restrict
stream);
DESCRIPTION
The function
fread()
reads nitems objects, each size
bytes long, from the stream pointed to by stream,
storing them at the location given by ptr.
The function
fwrite()
writes nitems objects, each size
bytes long, to the stream pointed to by stream,
obtaining them from the location given by ptr.
RETURN VALUES
The functions fread() and
fwrite() advance the file position indicator for the
stream by the number of bytes read or written. They return the number of
objects read or written. If an error occurs, or the end-of-file is reached,
the return value is a short object count (or zero).
The function fread() does not distinguish
between end-of-file and error; callers must use
feof(3) and
ferror(3)
to determine which occurred. The function fwrite()
returns a value less than nitems only if a write error
has occurred.
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The functions fread() and
fwrite() conform to ISO/IEC
9899:1990 (“ISO C90”).