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1. What is the difference between read() and fread()?    stackoverflow.com

I'm reading source code of the linux tool badblocks. They use the read() function there. Is there a difference to the standard C fread() function? (I'm not counting the ...

2. not able to read data from file using fread    stackoverflow.com

unsigned long int nextOffset, currOffset, len;
nextOffset = read offset from file (eg. 15)
currOffset = read prev offset from file (eg. 0 )  

len = nextOffset-currOffset;  
str = malloc((int)len);
fread(str,(int)(len)-1,1,dataFile);
str[(int)len]='\0';

rowAddr = ...

3. segmentation fault while using fread and not able to read the data from the file    stackoverflow.com

Here want to copy the data from the file enter_data and pass it to the function insert(key,keys) but i get a segmentation fault and more over i am not able ...

4. Proper way to read ELF files in C    stackoverflow.com

first time posting here, Googled for a few hours and I couldn't find anything. I am trying to write a client program that reads different files and sends them over the web ...

5. fread failing to read full file    cboard.cprogramming.com

int main() { short *uArr = new short[50000]; short *uComp = new short[50000]; for ( int i=0 ; i<50000 ; i++ ) uArr[i] = (short)(rand()%0xFFFF); int nWriteCount = 0; FILE* fOut; if ( fopen_s(&fOut, "testWrite", "w") == 0 ) nWriteCount = fwrite(uArr,sizeof(short),50000,fOut); printf( "Wrote %d shorts to file.\n", nWriteCount); fclose(fOut); int nReadCount = 0; FILE* fIn; if ( fopen_s(&fIn, "testWrite", "r") ...

6. Why does this work? (read wav file / fread)    forums.devshed.com

Hiya, I just got some lines of code and don't understand why it works: First of all, I read in a .wav file using the usual procedure: FILE *wav_fp; unsigned char *speechdat; char input_file[40]; int datalength; printf("Input name of .wav file: "); scanf("%s", input_file); if ((wav_fp = fopen(input_file, "rb")) == NULL) { printf("Can't open directory listing file '%s'\n", input_file); exit(0); } ...