filebuff/mix23io.c

This is filebuff/mix23io.c, an example to accompany the book, The Linux Programming Interface.

This file is not printed in the book; it is a supplementary file for Chapter 13.

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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main()

/* mix23io.c

   Illustrates the impact of stdio buffering when using stdio library functions
   and I/O system calls to work on the same file.

   Try running this program (with stdout directed to the terminal) without and
   with a command-line argument (any string).
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    printf("To man the world is twofold, ");
    if (argc > 1)
        printf("\n");
    write(STDOUT_FILENO, "in accordance with his twofold attitude.\n", 41);

    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

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