Open System Services Library Calls Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

OSS Library Calls (e - f) freopen_oss(3)
RETURN VALUES
If the freopen( ) function fails, a null pointer is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
If any of the following conditions occurs, the freopen( ) function sets errno to the value that
corresponds to the condition.
[EACCES] Search permission is denied on a component of the pathname prefix; or the file
exists and the permissions specified by the mode parameter are denied; or the file
does not exist and write permission is denied for the parent directory of the file to
be created.
[EINTR] The function was interrupted by a signal that was caught.
[EINVAL] The mode parameter is not a valid mode.
[EISDIR] The named file is a directory and mode requires write access.
[EMFILE] The OPEN_MAX file descriptors are currently open in the calling process.
[ENAMETOOLONG]
The length of the path string exceeds PATH_MAX or a pathname component is
longer than NAME_MAX.
[ENFILE] Too many files are currently open in the processor.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist or the path parameter points to an empty string.
[ENOMEM] Insufficient space to allocate a buffer.
[ENOSPC] The directory or file system that would contain the new file cannot be expanded.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the pathname prefix is not a directory.
[ENOTSUP] The path parameter refers to a file on a logical disk volume administered
through the Storage Management Foundation (SMF).
[ENXIO] The named file is a character-special or block-special file and the device associ-
ated with this special file does not exist.
[EOVERFLOW]
The size of the file cannot be represented in an object of type off_t.
[EROFS] The named file resides on a read-only file system and mode requires write access.
[ETXTBSY] The file is being executed and the mode requires write access.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: setacl(1).
Functions: open(2), open64(2), fclose(3), fopen(3), fopen64(3), freopen(3), freopen64(3),
freopen_guardian(3), freopen64_guardian(3), fseek(3), setbuf(3).
Miscellaneous topics: acl(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
The freopen_oss() function is an HP extension to the XPG4 Version 2 specification.
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