NAME

       BIO_read_ex, BIO_write_ex, BIO_read, BIO_write, BIO_gets, BIO_puts - BIO I/O functions

SYNOPSIS

        #include <openssl/bio.h>

        int BIO_read_ex(BIO *b, void *data, size_t dlen, size_t *readbytes);
        int BIO_write_ex(BIO *b, const void *data, size_t dlen, size_t *written);

        int BIO_read(BIO *b, void *data, int dlen);
        int BIO_gets(BIO *b, char *buf, int size);
        int BIO_write(BIO *b, const void *data, int dlen);
        int BIO_puts(BIO *b, const char *buf);

DESCRIPTION

       BIO_read_ex() attempts to read dlen bytes from BIO b and places the data in data. If any
       bytes were successfully read then the number of bytes read is stored in *readbytes.

       BIO_write_ex() attempts to write dlen bytes from data to BIO b. If successful then the
       number of bytes written is stored in *written.

       BIO_read() attempts to read len bytes from BIO b and places the data in buf.

       BIO_gets() performs the BIOs "gets" operation and places the data in buf. Usually this
       operation will attempt to read a line of data from the BIO of maximum length size-1. There
       are exceptions to this, however; for example, BIO_gets() on a digest BIO will calculate
       and return the digest and other BIOs may not support BIO_gets() at all.  The returned
       string is always NUL-terminated and the '\n' is preserved if present in the input data.

       BIO_write() attempts to write len bytes from buf to BIO b.

       BIO_puts() attempts to write a NUL-terminated string buf to BIO b.

RETURN VALUES

       BIO_read_ex() and BIO_write_ex() return 1 if data was successfully read or written, and 0
       otherwise.

       All other functions return either the amount of data successfully read or written (if the
       return value is positive) or that no data was successfully read or written if the result
       is 0 or -1. If the return value is -2 then the operation is not implemented in the
       specific BIO type.  The trailing NUL is not included in the length returned by BIO_gets().

NOTES

       A 0 or -1 return is not necessarily an indication of an error. In particular when the
       source/sink is non-blocking or of a certain type it may merely be an indication that no
       data is currently available and that the application should retry the operation later.

       One technique sometimes used with blocking sockets is to use a system call (such as
       select(), poll() or equivalent) to determine when data is available and then call read()
       to read the data. The equivalent with BIOs (that is call select() on the underlying I/O
       structure and then call BIO_read() to read the data) should not be used because a single
       call to BIO_read() can cause several reads (and writes in the case of SSL BIOs) on the
       underlying I/O structure and may block as a result. Instead select() (or equivalent)
       should be combined with non blocking I/O so successive reads will request a retry instead
       of blocking.

       See BIO_should_retry(3) for details of how to determine the cause of a retry and other I/O
       issues.

       If the BIO_gets() function is not supported by a BIO then it possible to work around this
       by adding a buffering BIO BIO_f_buffer(3) to the chain.

SEE ALSO

       BIO_should_retry(3)

HISTORY

       BIO_gets() on 1.1.0 and older when called on BIO_fd() based BIO does not keep the '\n' at
       the end of the line in the buffer.

COPYRIGHT

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       Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use this file except in
       compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy in the file LICENSE in the source
       distribution or at <https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.