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   getc_unlocked.3p    ( 3 )

stdio с явной блокировкой клиента (stdio with explicit client locking)

Пролог (Prolog)

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
       Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
       or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

Имя (Name)

getc_unlocked, getchar_unlocked, putc_unlocked, putchar_unlocked
       — stdio with explicit client locking

Синопсис (Synopsis)

#include <stdio.h>

int getc_unlocked(FILE *stream); int getchar_unlocked(void); int putc_unlocked(int c, FILE *stream); int putchar_unlocked(int c);


Описание (Description)

Versions of the functions getc(), getchar(), putc(), and
       putchar() respectively named getc_unlocked(), getchar_unlocked(),
       putc_unlocked(), and putchar_unlocked() shall be provided which
       are functionally equivalent to the original versions, with the
       exception that they are not required to be implemented in a fully
       thread-safe manner. They shall be thread-safe when used within a
       scope protected by flockfile() (or ftrylockfile()) and
       funlockfile().  These functions can safely be used in a multi-
       threaded program if and only if they are called while the
       invoking thread owns the (FILE *) object, as is the case after a
       successful call to the flockfile() or ftrylockfile() functions.

If getc_unlocked() or putc_unlocked() are implemented as macros they may evaluate stream more than once, so the stream argument should never be an expression with side-effects.


Возвращаемое значение (Return value)

See getc(3p), getchar(3p), putc(3p), and putchar(3p).

Ошибки (Error)

See getc(3p), getchar(3p), putc(3p), and putchar(3p).

The following sections are informative.


Примеры (Examples)

None.

Использование в приложениях (Application usage)

Since they may be implemented as macros, getc_unlocked() and
       putc_unlocked() may treat incorrectly a stream argument with
       side-effects. In particular, getc_unlocked(*f++) and
       putc_unlocked(c,*f++) do not necessarily work as expected.
       Therefore, use of these functions in such situations should be
       preceded by the following statement as appropriate:

#undef getc_unlocked #undef putc_unlocked


Обоснование (Rationale)

Some I/O functions are typically implemented as macros for
       performance reasons (for example, putc() and getc()).  For
       safety, they need to be synchronized, but it is often too
       expensive to synchronize on every character. Nevertheless, it was
       felt that the safety concerns were more important; consequently,
       the getc(), getchar(), putc(), and putchar() functions are
       required to be thread-safe. However, unlocked versions are also
       provided with names that clearly indicate the unsafe nature of
       their operation but can be used to exploit their higher
       performance.  These unlocked versions can be safely used only
       within explicitly locked program regions, using exported locking
       primitives. In particular, a sequence such as:

flockfile(fileptr); putc_unlocked('1', fileptr); putc_unlocked('\n', fileptr); fprintf(fileptr, "Line 2\n"); funlockfile(fileptr);

is permissible, and results in the text sequence:

1 Line 2

being printed without being interspersed with output from other threads.

It would be wrong to have the standard names such as getc(), putc(), and so on, map to the ``faster, but unsafe'' rather than the ``slower, but safe'' versions. In either case, you would still want to inspect all uses of getc(), putc(), and so on, by hand when converting existing code. Choosing the safe bindings as the default, at least, results in correct code and maintains the ``atomicity at the function'' invariant. To do otherwise would introduce gratuitous synchronization errors into converted code. Other routines that modify the stdio (FILE *) structures or buffers are also safely synchronized.

Note that there is no need for functions of the form getc_locked(), putc_locked(), and so on, since this is the functionality of getc(), putc(), et al. It would be inappropriate to use a feature test macro to switch a macro definition of getc() between getc_locked() and getc_unlocked(), since the ISO C standard requires an actual function to exist, a function whose behavior could not be changed by the feature test macro. Also, providing both the xxx_locked() and xxx_unlocked() forms leads to the confusion of whether the suffix describes the behavior of the function or the circumstances under which it should be used.

Three additional routines, flockfile(), ftrylockfile(), and funlockfile() (which may be macros), are provided to allow the user to delineate a sequence of I/O statements that are executed synchronously.

The ungetc() function is infrequently called relative to the other functions/macros so no unlocked variation is needed.


Будущие направления (Future directions)

None.

Смотри также (See also)

Section 2.5, Standard I/O Streams, flockfile(3p), getc(3p),
       getchar(3p), putc(3p), putchar(3p)

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, stdio.h(0p)