063838a7f5
Add NEWS for sysctl large buffers
Rename manpage to fprocopen
References:
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procps-ng/procps!56
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'\" t -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
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.\"
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.\" This file describes the readproc interface to the /proc filesystem
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.\"
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.\" Copyright 2018 Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
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.\"
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.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
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.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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.\" preserved on all copies.
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.\"
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.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
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.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
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.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
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.\" permission notice identical to this one
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.\"
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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
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.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
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.TH FPROCOPEN 3 "16 January 2018" "Linux Manpage" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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fprocopen \- stream open functions on files below /proc/##
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #define _GNU_SOURCE
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.br
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.B #include <stdio.h>
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.br
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.B #include <proc/procio.h>
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.sp
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.BI "FILE *fprocopen(const char *path, const char *mode);
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.B fprocopen
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function opens files below
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.I /proc/##
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whose name is the string to by path and associates a stream with it.
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The argument
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.I mode
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points to a string beginning with one of the following sequences
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.TP
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.B r
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Open a file below
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.I /proc/##
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for reading even large buffers. The stream is positioned at
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the beginning of the file.
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.TP
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.BR w [ <del> ]
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Open a file below
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.I /proc/##
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for writing even large buffers. The optional delimeter character
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can be one of the follwoing
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.BR '\ ' ,\ ',' ,\ '.' ,\ and\ ':'
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where the default is the colon
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.BR ',' .
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This allows to split very large input lines into pieces at this
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delimeter and write each of them to the opened file below
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.IR /proc/## .
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.TP
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.B e
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The underlying file descriptor will be closed if you use any
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of the ‘exec...’ functions within your code.
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.PP
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The internal API allows to use stdio functions to read and write
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large buffers below
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.IR /proc/## .
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.PP
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR fopen (3),
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.br
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.BR fopencookie (3)
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.br
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.BR setvbuf (3)
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.br
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.BR lseek (3)
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.PP
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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2018 Werner Fink,
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.SH AUTHOR
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Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
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