Chapter 10: File Handling in GNULinux


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In This Chapter

  • Understand File Handling APIs in GNU/Linux

  • Explore the Character Access Mechanisms

  • Explore the String Access Mechanisms

  • Investigate Both Sequential and Nonsequential (Random Access) Methods

  • Review Alternate APIs and Methods for File Access

Introduction

In this chapter, we ll look at the file handling APIs of GNU/Linux and explore a number of applications to demonstrate the proper use of the file handling APIs. We ll look at a number of different file handling functions, including character interfaces, string interfaces, and ASCII-mode and binary interfaces. The emphasis on this chapter will be to discuss the APIs and then use them in applications to illustrate their use.




GNU/Linux Application Programming
GNU/Linux Application Programming (Programming Series)
ISBN: 1584505680
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 203
Authors: M. Tim Jones

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