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12 Input/Output on Streams

This chapter describes the functions for creating streams and performing input and output operations on them. As discussed in Input/Output Overview, a stream is a fairly abstract, high-level concept representing a communications channel to a file, device, or process.

• Streams
• Standard Streams
• Opening Streams
• Closing Streams
• Streams and Threads
• Streams in Internationalized Applications
• Simple Output by Characters or Lines
• Character Input
• Line-Oriented Input
• Unreading
• Block Input/Output
• Formatted Output
• Customizing printf
• Formatted Input
• End-Of-File and Errors
• Recovering from errors
• Text and Binary Streams
• File Positioning
• Portable File-Position Functions
• Stream Buffering
• Other Kinds of Streams
• Formatted Messages