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diff --git a/doc/OpenFileChnl.3 b/doc/OpenFileChnl.3 index 80596d7..0d722f6 100644 --- a/doc/OpenFileChnl.3 +++ b/doc/OpenFileChnl.3 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .BS '\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below! .SH NAME -Tcl_OpenFileChannel, Tcl_OpenCommandChannel, Tcl_MakeFileChannel, Tcl_GetChannel, Tcl_GetChannelNames, Tcl_GetChannelNamesEx, Tcl_RegisterChannel, Tcl_UnregisterChannel, Tcl_DetachChannel, Tcl_IsStandardChannel, Tcl_Close, Tcl_ReadChars, Tcl_Read, Tcl_GetsObj, Tcl_Gets, Tcl_WriteObj, Tcl_WriteChars, Tcl_Write, Tcl_Flush, Tcl_Seek, Tcl_Tell, Tcl_GetChannelOption, Tcl_SetChannelOption, Tcl_Eof, Tcl_InputBlocked, Tcl_InputBuffered, Tcl_OutputBuffered, Tcl_Ungets, Tcl_ReadRaw, Tcl_WriteRaw \- buffered I/O facilities using channels +Tcl_OpenFileChannel, Tcl_OpenCommandChannel, Tcl_MakeFileChannel, Tcl_GetChannel, Tcl_GetChannelNames, Tcl_GetChannelNamesEx, Tcl_RegisterChannel, Tcl_UnregisterChannel, Tcl_DetachChannel, Tcl_IsStandardChannel, Tcl_Close, Tcl_ReadChars, Tcl_Read, Tcl_GetsObj, Tcl_Gets, Tcl_WriteObj, Tcl_WriteChars, Tcl_Write, Tcl_Flush, Tcl_Seek, Tcl_Tell, Tcl_TruncateChannel, Tcl_GetChannelOption, Tcl_SetChannelOption, Tcl_Eof, Tcl_InputBlocked, Tcl_InputBuffered, Tcl_OutputBuffered, Tcl_Ungets, Tcl_ReadRaw, Tcl_WriteRaw \- buffered I/O facilities using channels .SH SYNOPSIS .nf \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR @@ -25,14 +25,12 @@ Tcl_Channel .sp Tcl_Channel \fBTcl_GetChannel\fR(\fIinterp, channelName, modePtr\fR) -.VS 8.3 .sp int \fBTcl_GetChannelNames\fR(\fIinterp\fR) .sp int \fBTcl_GetChannelNamesEx\fR(\fIinterp, pattern\fR) -.VE .sp void \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR(\fIinterp, channel\fR) @@ -49,7 +47,6 @@ int int \fBTcl_Close\fR(\fIinterp, channel\fR) .sp -.VS 8.1 int \fBTcl_ReadChars\fR(\fIchannel, readObjPtr, charsToRead, appendFlag\fR) .sp @@ -73,15 +70,12 @@ int .sp int \fBTcl_Write\fR(\fIchannel, byteBuf, bytesToWrite\fR) -.VE -.VS 8.3.2 .sp int \fBTcl_ReadRaw\fR(\fIchannel, readBuf, bytesToRead\fR) .sp int \fBTcl_WriteRaw\fR(\fIchannel, byteBuf, bytesToWrite\fR) -.VE .sp int \fBTcl_Eof\fR(\fIchannel\fR) @@ -94,19 +88,20 @@ int .sp int \fBTcl_InputBuffered\fR(\fIchannel\fR) -.VS 8.4 .sp int \fBTcl_OutputBuffered\fR(\fIchannel\fR) -.VE .sp -.VS 8.4 Tcl_WideInt \fBTcl_Seek\fR(\fIchannel, offset, seekMode\fR) .sp Tcl_WideInt \fBTcl_Tell\fR(\fIchannel\fR) -.VE 8.4 +.sp +.VS 8.5 +int +\fBTcl_TruncateChannel\fR(\fIchannel, length\fR) +.VE 8.5 .sp int \fBTcl_GetChannelOption\fR(\fIinterp, channel, optionName, optionValue\fR) @@ -115,12 +110,12 @@ int \fBTcl_SetChannelOption\fR(\fIinterp, channel, optionName, newValue\fR) .sp .SH ARGUMENTS -.AS Tcl_ChannelType newClientProcPtr in +.AS Tcl_DString *channelName in/out .AP Tcl_Interp *interp in Used for error reporting and to look up a channel registered in it. -.AP "CONST char" *fileName in +.AP "const char" *fileName in The name of a local or network file. -.AP "CONST char" *mode in +.AP "const char" *mode in Specifies how the file is to be accessed. May have any of the values allowed for the \fImode\fR argument to the Tcl \fBopen\fR command. .AP int permissions in @@ -128,7 +123,7 @@ POSIX-style permission flags such as 0644. If a new file is created, these permissions will be set on the created file. .AP int argc in The number of elements in \fIargv\fR. -.AP "CONST char" **argv in +.AP "const char" **argv in Arguments for constructing a command pipeline. These values have the same meaning as the non-switch arguments to the Tcl \fBexec\fR command. .AP int flags in @@ -147,20 +142,17 @@ file descriptor, for Windows it is a HANDLE. .AP int readOrWrite in OR-ed combination of \fBTCL_READABLE\fR and \fBTCL_WRITABLE\fR to indicate what operations are valid on \fIhandle\fR. -.AP "CONST char" *channelName in +.AP "const char" *channelName in The name of the channel. .AP int *modePtr out Points at an integer variable that will receive an OR-ed combination of \fBTCL_READABLE\fR and \fBTCL_WRITABLE\fR denoting whether the channel is open for reading and writing. -.VS 8.3 -.AP "CONST char" *pattern in +.AP "const char" *pattern in The pattern to match on, passed to Tcl_StringMatch, or NULL. -.VE .AP Tcl_Channel channel in A Tcl channel for input or output. Must have been the return value from a procedure such as \fBTcl_OpenFileChannel\fR. -.VS 8.1 br .AP Tcl_Obj *readObjPtr in/out A pointer to a Tcl Object in which to store the characters read from the channel. @@ -184,25 +176,22 @@ object. A pointer to a Tcl dynamic string in which to store the line read from the channel. Must have been initialized by the caller. The line read will be appended to any data already in the dynamic string. -.VS 8.3 -.AP "CONST char" *input in +.AP "const char" *input in The input to add to a channel buffer. .AP int inputLen in Length of the input .AP int addAtEnd in Flag indicating whether the input should be added to the end or beginning of the channel buffer. -.VE .AP Tcl_Obj *writeObjPtr in A pointer to a Tcl Object whose contents will be output to the channel. -.AP "CONST char" *charBuf in +.AP "const char" *charBuf in A buffer containing the characters to output to the channel. -.AP "CONST char" *byteBuf in +.AP "const char" *byteBuf in A buffer containing the bytes to output to the channel. .AP int bytesToWrite in The number of bytes to consume from \fIcharBuf\fR or \fIbyteBuf\fR and output to the channel. -.VE .AP Tcl_WideInt offset in How far to move the access point in the channel at which the next input or output operation will be applied, measured in bytes from the position @@ -211,13 +200,15 @@ given by \fIseekMode\fR. May be either positive or negative. Relative to which point to seek; used with \fIoffset\fR to calculate the new access point for the channel. Legal values are \fBSEEK_SET\fR, \fBSEEK_CUR\fR, and \fBSEEK_END\fR. -.AP "CONST char" *optionName in +.AP Tcl_WideInt length in +The (non-negative) length to truncate the channel the channel to. +.AP "const char" *optionName in The name of an option applicable to this channel, such as \fB\-blocking\fR. May have any of the values accepted by the \fBfconfigure\fR command. .AP Tcl_DString *optionValue in Where to store the value of an option or a list of all options and their values. Must have been initialized by the caller. -.AP "CONST char" *newValue in +.AP "const char" *newValue in New value for the option given by \fIoptionName\fR. .BE @@ -228,7 +219,7 @@ platform-independent mechanism for performing buffered input and output operations on a variety of file, socket, and device types. The channel mechanism is extensible to new channel types, by -providing a low level channel driver for the new type; the channel driver +providing a low-level channel driver for the new type; the channel driver interface is described in the manual entry for \fBTcl_CreateChannel\fR. The channel mechanism provides a buffering scheme modeled after Unix's standard I/O, and it also allows for nonblocking I/O on @@ -255,8 +246,6 @@ leaves an error message in \fIinterp\fR's result after any error. As of Tcl 8.4, the object-based API \fBTcl_FSOpenFileChannel\fR should be used in preference to \fBTcl_OpenFileChannel\fR wherever possible. .PP - -.PP The newly created channel is not registered in the supplied interpreter; to register it, use \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR, described below. If one of the standard channels, \fBstdin, stdout\fR or \fBstderr\fR was @@ -349,7 +338,7 @@ reference to a channel that is also registered in a Tcl interpreter. .PP This procedure interacts with the code managing the standard channels. If no standard channels were initialized before the first -call to \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR they will get initialized by that +call to \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR, they will get initialized by that call. See \fBTcl_StandardChannels\fR for a general treatise about standard channels and the behaviour of the Tcl library with regard to them. @@ -376,7 +365,7 @@ accessible in \fIinterp\fR. After this call, Tcl programs will no longer be able to use the channel's name to refer to the channel in that interpreter. Beyond that, this command has no further effect. It cannot be used on the standard channels (stdout, stderr, stdin), and will return -TCL_ERROR if passed one of those channels. +\fBTCL_ERROR\fR if passed one of those channels. .PP Code not associated with a Tcl interpreter can call \fBTcl_DetachChannel\fR with \fIinterp\fR as NULL, to indicate to Tcl @@ -423,7 +412,6 @@ been given as the \fBchan\fR argument in a call to when all calls to \fBTcl_RegisterChannel\fR have been matched by corresponding calls to \fBTcl_UnregisterChannel\fR. -.VS 8.1 br .SH "TCL_READCHARS AND TCL_READ" .PP \fBTcl_ReadChars\fR consumes bytes from \fIchannel\fR, converting the bytes @@ -434,7 +422,7 @@ that were stored in \fIreadObjPtr\fR. If an error occurs while reading, the return value is \-1 and \fBTcl_ReadChars\fR records a POSIX error code that can be retrieved with \fBTcl_GetErrno\fR. .PP -Setting \fIcharsToRead\fR to \fB-1\fR will cause the command to read +Setting \fIcharsToRead\fR to \fB\-1\fR will cause the command to read all characters currently available (non-blocking) or everything until eof (blocking mode). .PP @@ -467,7 +455,7 @@ from a channel, manipulated by calling \fBTcl_GetByteArrayFromObj\fR and related functions, and then written to a channel without the expense of ever converting to or from UTF-8. .PP -\fBTcl_Read\fR is similar to \fBTcl_ReadChars\fR, except that it doesn't do +\fBTcl_Read\fR is similar to \fBTcl_ReadChars\fR, except that it does not do encoding conversions, regardless of the channel's encoding. It is deprecated and exists for backwards compatibility with non-internationalized Tcl extensions. It consumes bytes from \fIchannel\fR and stores them in @@ -519,9 +507,11 @@ at either the head or tail of the queue. The pointer \fIinput\fR points to the data that is to be added. The length of the input to add is given by \fIinputLen\fR. A non-zero value of \fIaddAtEnd\fR indicates that the data is to be added at the end of queue; otherwise it will be added at the -head of the queue. If \fIchannel\fR has a "sticky" EOF set, no data will be +head of the queue. If \fIchannel\fR has a +.QW sticky +EOF set, no data will be added to the input queue. \fBTcl_Ungets\fR returns \fIinputLen\fR or --1 if an error occurs. +\-1 if an error occurs. .SH "TCL_WRITECHARS, TCL_WRITEOBJ, AND TCL_WRITE" .PP @@ -561,7 +551,7 @@ byte-oriented data can be read from a channel, manipulated by calling \fBTcl_GetByteArrayFromObj\fR and related functions, and then written to a channel without the expense of ever converting to or from UTF-8. .PP -\fBTcl_Write\fR is similar to \fBTcl_WriteChars\fR except that it doesn't do +\fBTcl_Write\fR is similar to \fBTcl_WriteChars\fR except that it does not do encoding conversions, regardless of the channel's encoding. It is deprecated and exists for backwards compatibility with non-internationalized Tcl extensions. It accepts \fIbytesToWrite\fR bytes of data at @@ -577,7 +567,6 @@ not. Thus this function is \fBonly\fR usable for transformational channel drivers, i.e. drivers used in the middle of a stack of channels, to move data from the transformation into the channel below it. -.VE .SH TCL_FLUSH .PP @@ -609,6 +598,14 @@ After an error, the access point may or may not have been moved. \fBTcl_Tell\fR returns the current access point for a channel. The returned value is \-1 if the channel does not support seeking. +.SH TCL_TRUNCATECHANNEL +.PP +.VS 8.5 +\fBTcl_TruncateChannel\fR truncates the file underlying \fIchannel\fR +to a given \fIlength\fR of bytes. It returns \fBTCL_OK\fR if the +operation succeeded, and \fBTCL_ERROR\fR otherwise. +.VE 8.5 + .SH TCL_GETCHANNELOPTION .PP \fBTcl_GetChannelOption\fR retrieves, in \fIoptionValue\fR, the value of one of @@ -658,11 +655,9 @@ buffered in the internal buffers for a channel. If the channel is not open for reading, this function always returns zero. .SH TCL_OUTPUTBUFFERED -.VS 8.4 \fBTcl_OutputBuffered\fR returns the number of bytes of output currently buffered in the internal buffers for a channel. If the channel is not open for writing, this function always returns zero. -.VE .SH "PLATFORM ISSUES" .PP @@ -673,8 +668,7 @@ call. On Windows platforms, the handle is a file \fBHANDLE\fR when the channel was created with \fBTcl_OpenFileChannel\fR, \fBTcl_OpenCommandChannel\fR, or \fBTcl_MakeFileChannel\fR. Other channel types may return a different type of handle on Windows -platforms. On the Macintosh platform, the handle is a file reference -number as returned from \fBHOpenDF\fR. +platforms. .SH "SEE ALSO" DString(3), fconfigure(n), filename(n), fopen(3), Tcl_CreateChannel(3) |