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RGtk2 (version 2.20.31)

gInputStreamRead: gInputStreamRead

Description

Tries to read count bytes from the stream into the buffer starting at buffer. Will block during this read.

Usage

gInputStreamRead(object, count, cancellable = NULL, .errwarn = TRUE)

Arguments

object
count
the number of bytes that will be read from the stream
cancellable
optional GCancellable object, NULL to ignore.
.errwarn
Whether to issue a warning on error or fail silently

Value

A list containing the following elements:
retval
[integer] Number of bytes read, or -1 on error
buffer
a buffer to read data into (which should be at least count bytes long).
error
location to store the error occuring, or NULL to ignore

Details

If count is zero returns zero and does nothing. A value of count larger than G_MAXSSIZE will cause a G_IO_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT error. On success, the number of bytes read into the buffer is returned. It is not an error if this is not the same as the requested size, as it can happen e.g. near the end of a file. Zero is returned on end of file (or if count is zero), but never otherwise. If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned. If an operation was partially finished when the operation was cancelled the partial result will be returned, without an error. On error -1 is returned and error is set accordingly.