fputws(3)

fputws3

Output a line of wide characters to a stream

Usage

#include <stdio.h>

#include <wchar.h>

int

fputws(const wchar_t * restrict ws, FILE * restrict fp);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The fputws() function writes the wide character string pointed to by ws to the stream pointed to by fp.

Return values

The fputws() function returns 0 on success and -1 on error.

Errors

The fputws() function will fail if:

[EBADF]

The fp argument supplied is not a writable stream.

The fputws() function may also fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the routine write(2).

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE; the text changed 34 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 5.1–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–14.5
  35. 15.0–16.0

Standards

The fputws() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (“POSIX.1”).

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.