Thread: Low-Level I/O | read()

I'm trying to implement low-level I/O using open, write, and read. The above code works fine but I can't seem to use read() to get the data back out. I'm using read() with the read only flag and using a char as a buffer. I'm trying to read the contents of the file into a character array and then print that to the screen.


Any ideas?

Code:

#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>

char str[80];

int i,f;

main()

{ f = open("abc",O_WRONLY|O_CREAT,0700);

  printf("Enter a string: ");
  fgets(str, 10, stdin);

  i = strlen(str)-1;
  if( str[ i ] == '\n')
      str[i] = '\0';

  write(f,str,80);
  close(f);
}

I'm guessing that's because you never call read() anywhere in your program.

On a somewhat more serious note, if you write then read, be sure to rewind your file pointer before reading. Or if WRONLY means write only, then you need to close and reopen the file.

Yeah I think you did a perfect job of writing something that dumps stdin into a file. But perhaps you meant to do the exact opposite.... Just out of curiosity, are you using linux?

Yes I am using Linux & I am having trouble implementing read()

Originally Posted by js0n22

Yes I am using Linux & I am having trouble implementing read()

Why would you want to implement it? It's already there, isn't it?

Have you done "man read" yet?