getchar_unlocked()

Get a character from stdin

Synopsis:

#include <stdio.h>

int getchar_unlocked( void );

Library:

libc

Description:

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

Returns:

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

Classification:

POSIX 1003.1

See also:

getc(), getc_unlocked(), getchar(), putc(), putchar(), putchar_unlocked(), putc_unlocked()