Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Misc Functions

Here are some miscellaneous buffered I/O functions.

int fileno (FILE *stream);

This returns the file descriptor that the stream is wrapped around. This is handy if you need to use fcntl(), fchmod(), fstat(), or the dup() functions.

int getw (FILE *stream);

int putw (int w, FILE *stream);

These are like getc()/putc() but read or write an integer. The integers are not written in a canonical form (discussed in Chapter 14: Network Programming With Sockets), so if you want to be portable, you will need to put the bytes into a known byte order.