fwide(3C)
NAME
fwide - set stream orientation
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>
int fwide(FILE *stream, int mode);
DESCRIPTION
The fwide() function determines the orientation of the
stream pointed to by stream. If mode is greater than 0, the
function first attempts to make the stream wide-orientated.
If mode is less than 0, the function first attempts to make
the stream byte-orientated. Otherwise, mode is 0 and the
function does not alter the orientation of the stream.
If the orientation of the stream has already been deter-
mined, fwide() does not change it.
Because no return value is reserved to indicate an error, an
application wishing to check for error situations should set
errno to 0, then call fwide(), then check errno and if it is
non-zero, assume an error has occurred.
RETURN VALUES
The fwide() function returns a value greater than 0 if,
after the call, the stream has wide-orientation, a value
less than 0 if the stream has byte-orientation, or 0 if the
stream has no orientation.
ERRORS
The fwide() function may fail if:
EBADF The stream argument is not a valid stream.
USAGE
A call to fwide() with mode set to 0 can be used to deter-
mine the current orientation of a stream.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attri-
butes:
____________________________________________________________
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
| MT-Level | MT-Safe |
|_____________________________|_____________________________|
SEE ALSO
attributes(5)
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