filebuff/mix23_linebuff.c

This is filebuff/mix23_linebuff.c, an example to accompany the book, The Linux Programming Interface.

This file is not printed in the book; it is the solution to Exercise 13-4 (page 250).

The source code file is copyright 2024, Michael Kerrisk, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 3.

In the listing below, the names of Linux system calls and C library functions are hyperlinked to manual pages from the Linux man-pages project, and the names of functions implemented in the book are hyperlinked to the implementations of those functions.

 

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/* mix23_linebuff.c

   Illustrates the impact of stdio buffering when using stdio library
   functions and I/O system calls to work on the same file. Observe the
   difference in output when running this program with output directed
   to a terminal and again with output directed to a file.
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    printf("If I had more time, \n");
    write(STDOUT_FILENO, "I would have written you a shorter letter.\n", 43);
    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

 

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