Friday, December 18, 2009

Exercises










Exercises


5.1

Implement setbuf using setvbuf.

5.2

Type in the program that copies a file using line-at-a-time I/O (fgets and fputs) from Section 5.8, but use a MAXLINE of 4. What happens if you copy lines that exceed this length? Explain what is happening.

5.3

What does a return value of 0 from printf mean?

5.4

The following code works correctly on some machines, but not on others. What could be the problem?




#include <stdio.h>

int
main(void)
{
char c;

while ((c = getchar()) != EOF)
putchar(c);
}



5.5

Why does tempnam restrict the prefix to five characters?

5.6

How would you use the fsync function (Section 3.13) with a standard I/O stream?

5.7

In the programs in Figures 1.7 and 1.10, the prompt that is printed does not contain a newline, and we don't call fflush. What causes the prompt to be output?










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