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Diffstat (limited to 'cfp.c')
-rw-r--r-- | cfp.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +#include "cat.h" + +/* Function writes the contents of an opened file descriptor to stdout */ +int cfp(FILE *fp, void *buf) { + int br; + + /* Use the buffer to read the file in blocks, writing each block to stdout + * as we go */ + while ((br = fread(buf, 1, BUFLEN, fp)) > 0) { + if (fwrite(buf, 1, br, stdout) == 0) { + perror(__FUNCTION__); + return -1; + } + } + + /* If the last return value for br() was -1, there was an error; 0 is what + * we expect */ + if (ferror(fp) != 0 || ferror(stdout) != 0) { + perror(__FUNCTION__); + return -1; + } + + /* Force a write of any still-buffered data to stdout */ + if (fflush(stdout) != 0) { + perror(__FUNCTION__); + return -1; + } + + /* Return success, since apparently nothing went wrong before we got here + * */ + return 0; +} + |