FGETC
Section: POSIX Programmer's Manual (3P)
Updated: 2017
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PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult
the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
NAME
fgetc
--- get a byte from a stream
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int fgetc(FILE *stream);
DESCRIPTION
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the
ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the
ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1-2017 defers to the ISO C standard.
If the end-of-file indicator for the input stream pointed to by
stream
is not set and a next byte is present, the
fgetc()
function shall obtain the next byte as an
unsigned char
converted to an
int,
from the input stream pointed to by
stream,
and advance the associated file position indicator for the stream (if
defined). Since
fgetc()
operates on bytes, reading a character consisting of multiple bytes (or
``a multi-byte character'') may require multiple calls to
fgetc().
The
fgetc()
function may mark the last data access timestamp of the file
associated with
stream
for update. The last data access timestamp shall be marked for
update by the first successful execution of
fgetc(),
fgets(),
fread(),
fscanf(),
getc(),
getchar(),
getdelim(),
getline(),
gets(),
or
scanf()
using
stream
that returns data not supplied by a prior call to
ungetc().
RETURN VALUE
Upon successful completion,
fgetc()
shall return the next byte from the input stream pointed to by
stream.
If the end-of-file indicator for the stream is set, or if the
stream is at end-of-file, the end-of-file indicator for the
stream shall be set and
fgetc()
shall return EOF. If a read error occurs, the error indicator for the
stream shall be set,
fgetc()
shall return EOF,
and shall set
errno
to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The
fgetc()
function shall fail if data needs to be read and:
- EAGAIN
-
The O_NONBLOCK flag is set for the file descriptor underlying
stream
and the thread would be delayed in the
fgetc()
operation.
- EBADF
-
The file descriptor underlying
stream
is not a valid file descriptor open for reading.
- EINTR
-
The read operation was terminated due to the receipt of a signal, and
no data was transferred.
- EIO
-
A physical I/O error has occurred, or the process is in a background
process group attempting to read from its controlling terminal, and
either the calling thread is blocking SIGTTIN or the process is ignoring
SIGTTIN or the process group of the process is orphaned.
This error may also be generated for implementation-defined reasons.
- EOVERFLOW
-
The file is a regular file and an attempt was made to read at or beyond
the offset maximum associated with the corresponding stream.
The
fgetc()
function may fail if:
- ENOMEM
-
Insufficient storage space is available.
- ENXIO
-
A request was made of a nonexistent device, or the request was outside
the capabilities of the device.
The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
None.
APPLICATION USAGE
If the integer value returned by
fgetc()
is stored into a variable of type
char
and then compared against the integer constant EOF, the comparison may
never succeed, because sign-extension of a variable of type
char
on widening to integer is implementation-defined.
The
ferror()
or
feof()
functions must be used to distinguish between an error condition and an
end-of-file condition.
RATIONALE
None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSO
Section 2.5,
Standard I/O Streams,
feof(),
ferror(),
fgets(),
fread(),
fscanf(),
getchar(),
getc(),
gets(),
ungetc()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2017,
<stdio.h>
COPYRIGHT
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from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology
-- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition,
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Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.
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