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       This  manual  page  is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux implementation of this interface
       may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the  interface
       may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME

       fputws — put a wide-character string on a stream

SYNOPSIS

       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <wchar.h>

       int fputws(const wchar_t *restrict ws, FILE *restrict stream);

DESCRIPTION

       The  functionality  described  on  this  reference  page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict
       between the requirements described  here  and  the  ISO C  standard  is  unintentional.  This  volume  of
       POSIX.1‐2008 defers to the ISO C standard.

       The  fputws()  function  shall  write  a  character  string  corresponding to the (null-terminated) wide-
       character string pointed to by ws to the stream pointed to by stream.  No character corresponding to  the
       terminating null wide-character code shall be written.

       The  last data modification and last file status change timestamps of the file shall be marked for update
       between the successful execution of fputws() and the next successful completion of a call to fflush()  or
       fclose() on the same stream or a call to exit() or abort().

RETURN VALUE

       Upon  successful  completion, fputws() shall return a non-negative number. Otherwise, it shall return −1,
       set an error indicator for the stream, and set errno to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       Refer to fputwc().

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       The fputws() function does not append a <newline>.

       This volume of POSIX.1‐2008 requires that successful completion simply  return  a  non-negative  integer.
       There are at least three known different implementation conventions for this requirement:

        *  Return a constant value.

        *  Return the last character written.

        *  Return the number of bytes written. Note that this implementation convention cannot be adhered to for
           strings longer than {INT_MAX} bytes as the value would not be representable in the return type of the
           function.  For backwards-compatibility, implementations can return the number of bytes for strings of
           up to {INT_MAX} bytes, and return {INT_MAX} for all longer strings.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       Section 2.5, Standard I/O Streams, fopen()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <stdio.h>, <wchar.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition,
       Standard  for  Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base
       Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,  Inc
       and  The  Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event
       of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard,  the  original
       IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
       http://www.unix.org/online.html .

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