Function

GLibfreopen

since: 2.6

Declaration 

FILE*
g_freopen (
  const gchar* filename,
  const gchar* mode,
  FILE* stream
)

Description

A wrapper for the POSIX freopen() function. The freopen() function opens a file and associates it with an existing stream.

See your C library manual for more details about freopen().

Available since: 2.6

Parameters

filename

Type: const gchar*

A pathname in the GLib file name encoding (UTF-8 on Windows)

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a file system path, using the OS encoding.
mode

Type: const gchar*

A string describing the mode in which the file should be opened.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
stream

Type: FILE*

An existing stream which will be reused, or NULL.

The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.

Return value

Type: FILE*

A FILE* if the file was successfully opened, or NULL if an error occurred.

The data is owned by the called function.
The return value can be NULL.