Nils O. Selåsdal
37 lines
997 B
C
37 lines
997 B
C
#ifndef UC_READ_FILE_H_
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#define UC_READ_FILE_H_
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#include <stddef.h>
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#ifdef __cplusplus
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extern "C" {
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#endif
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/** Read the content of a file.
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* The returned char* is malloced memory and must be freed by the caller.
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* The content is terminated by a nul byte, regardless of whether the content
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* is binary or text. The returned length does not include this nul byte.
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*
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* @param file_name name of the file
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* @param length Returned length of the content read
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* @param max Fail if the read content length is greater than max.
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* @return The content read from the file, or NULL if something failed
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* (inspect errno to see why it failed)
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*/
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char *
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uc_read_file(const char *file_name, size_t *length, size_t max);
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/** Read the content of a file descriptor as a stream.
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* @see uc_read_file
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* This is similar but reads from a file descriptor,
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* of any type as long as it supports the read() call.
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*/
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char *
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uc_read_fd(int fd, size_t *length, size_t max);
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#ifdef __cplusplus
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}
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#endif
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#endif
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