File: FileDescriptor.java

package info (click to toggle)
why 2.30%2Bdfsg-5
  • links: PTS, VCS
  • area: main
  • in suites: wheezy
  • size: 26,916 kB
  • sloc: ml: 116,979; java: 9,376; ansic: 5,175; makefile: 1,335; sh: 531; lisp: 127
file content (115 lines) | stat: -rw-r--r-- 3,929 bytes parent folder | download | duplicates (3)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
/*
 * @(#)FileDescriptor.java	1.20 03/01/23
 *
 * Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package java.io;

/**
 * Instances of the file descriptor class serve as an opaque handle
 * to the underlying machine-specific structure representing an open
 * file, an open socket, or another source or sink of bytes. The
 * main practical use for a file descriptor is to create a
 * <code>FileInputStream</code> or <code>FileOutputStream</code> to
 * contain it.
 * <p>
 * Applications should not create their own file descriptors.
 *
 * @author  Pavani Diwanji
 * @version 1.20, 01/23/03
 * @see	    java.io.FileInputStream
 * @see	    java.io.FileOutputStream
 * @since   JDK1.0
 */
public final class FileDescriptor {

    private int fd;

    /**
     * Constructs an (invalid) FileDescriptor
     * object.
     */
    public /**/ FileDescriptor() {
	fd = -1;
    }

    private /* */ FileDescriptor(int fd) {
	this.fd = fd;
    }

    /**
     * A handle to the standard input stream. Usually, this file
     * descriptor is not used directly, but rather via the input stream
     * known as <code>System.in</code>.
     *
     * @see     java.lang.System#in
     */
    public static final FileDescriptor in = new FileDescriptor(0);

    /**
     * A handle to the standard output stream. Usually, this file
     * descriptor is not used directly, but rather via the output stream
     * known as <code>System.out</code>.
     * @see     java.lang.System#out
     */
    public static final FileDescriptor out = new FileDescriptor(1);

    /**
     * A handle to the standard error stream. Usually, this file
     * descriptor is not used directly, but rather via the output stream
     * known as <code>System.err</code>.
     *
     * @see     java.lang.System#err
     */
    public static final FileDescriptor err = new FileDescriptor(2);

    /**
     * Tests if this file descriptor object is valid.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if the file descriptor object represents a
     *          valid, open file, socket, or other active I/O connection;
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise.
     */
    public boolean valid() {
	return fd != -1;
    }

    /**
     * Force all system buffers to synchronize with the underlying
     * device.  This method returns after all modified data and
     * attributes of this FileDescriptor have been written to the
     * relevant device(s).  In particular, if this FileDescriptor
     * refers to a physical storage medium, such as a file in a file
     * system, sync will not return until all in-memory modified copies
     * of buffers associated with this FileDesecriptor have been
     * written to the physical medium.
     *
     * sync is meant to be used by code that requires physical
     * storage (such as a file) to be in a known state  For
     * example, a class that provided a simple transaction facility
     * might use sync to ensure that all changes to a file caused
     * by a given transaction were recorded on a storage medium.
     *
     * sync only affects buffers downstream of this FileDescriptor.  If
     * any in-memory buffering is being done by the application (for
     * example, by a BufferedOutputStream object), those buffers must
     * be flushed into the FileDescriptor (for example, by invoking
     * OutputStream.flush) before that data will be affected by sync.
     *
     * @exception SyncFailedException
     *	      Thrown when the buffers cannot be flushed,
     *	      or because the system cannot guarantee that all the
     *	      buffers have been synchronized with physical media.
     * @since     JDK1.1
     */
    public native void sync() throws SyncFailedException;

    /* This routine initializes JNI field offsets for the class */
    private static native void initIDs();

    static {
	initIDs();
    }
}