The function
fread()
reads
nmemb
elements of data, each
size
bytes long, from the stream pointed to by
stream,
storing them at the location given by
ptr.
The function
fwrite()
writes
nmemb
elements of data, each
size
bytes long, to the stream pointed to by
stream,
obtaining them from the location given by
ptr.
fread()
and
fwrite()
return the number of items successfully read or written (i.e., not the
number of characters).
If an error occurs, or the end-of-file is
reached, the return value is a short item count (or zero).
fread()
does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers must use
feof(3)
and
ferror(3)
to determine which occurred.
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