musl - musl - an implementation of the standard library for Linux-based systems

implement the fopencookie extension to stdio

notes added by maintainer: this function is a GNU extension. it was chosen over the similar BSD function funopen because the latter depends on fpos_t being an arithmetic type as part of its public API, conflicting with our definition of fpos_t and with the intent that it be an opaque type. it was accepted for inclusion because, despite not being widely used, it is usually very difficult to extricate software using it from the dependency on it. calling pattern for the read and write callbacks is not likely to match glibc or other implementations, but should work with any reasonable callbacks. in particular the read function is never called without at least one byte being needed to satisfy its caller, so that spurious blocking is not introduced. contracts for what callbacks called from inside libc/stdio can do are always complicated, and at some point still need to be specified explicitly. at the very least, the callbacks must return or block indefinitely (they cannot perform nonlocal exits) and they should not make calls to stdio using their own FILE as an argument.

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