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openreadclose(3) Library Functions Manual openreadclose(3)

NAME

openreadclose - read a whole file into a stralloc

SYNTAX

#include <libowfat/openreadclose.h>

ssize_t openreadclose(const char *filename,
stralloc* sa,size_t bufsize);

DESCRIPTION

openreadclose opens the file filename for reading and reads the whole content into the stralloc sa. The file is read in chunks of bufsize bytes size. If everything worked fine, openreadclose returns 1. If the file did not exist, openreadclose returns 0. On every other error, openreadclose returns -1 and sets errno appropriately.

SEE ALSO

open_read(3), readclose(3)