getc_unlocked()

Get the next character from a file

Synopsis:

#include <stdio.h>

int getc_unlocked( FILE *fp );

Library:

libc

Description:

The getc_unlocked() function is a thread-unsafe version of getc(). It can be used safely only when the invoking thread has locked fp using flockfile() (or ftrylockfile()) and funlockfile().

Returns:

The next character from the input stream pointed to by fp, or EOF if an end-of-file or error condition occurs (errno is set).

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1

See also:

flockfile(), getc(), getchar(), getchar_unlocked(), putc(), putchar(), putchar_unlocked(), putc_unlocked()