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/*
* Copyright (c) 1994, 1995 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* @(#)OutputFile.java 95/01/31 1.3
*
* December 1994, Eugene Kuerner
*
* This file defines class OutputFile which implementa a write only
* output file abstraction. Like class InputFile, class OutputFile
* subclasses of class File to obtain simple file and path name
* functions.
*
* @version 1.0, 01 Dec 1994
* @author Eugene Kuerner
*
*/
/*
* Because we depend on native code to implement some of the methods
* in this class, we need to refer to the system's Linker object.
*
*/
import java.util.Linker;
/*
* Associate this class with classes File and InputFile (already part
* of package demo) into package demo.
*
*/
package demo;
/**
* This class defines a simple writeonly file by extending class File.
*
*/
public
class OutputFile extends File {
/**
* Link in the native library that this class depends on. We
* bind this class loading to the library loading by making the
* Linker.loadLibrary() call part of the static initializer for
* the class. That is, if the loadLibary() call fails this class
* fails to load.
*
*/
static {
Linker.loadLibrary("file");
}
/**
* Holds the system dependent handle to the file resource.
*
*/
protected int fd;
/**
* Constructor for the output file object. Initializes the
* parent class with the path name.
*
*/
public OutputFile(String path) {
super(path);
}
/**
* Attempts to open the file for writing. If the file does not
* exist one is created. Returns TRUE on success and FALSE on
* failure.
*
*/
public native boolean open();
/**
* Attempts to close the previously opened file. Has
* no return value.
*/
public native void close();
/**
* Writes some number of bytes to the opened file. Returns
* the number of bytes written.
*
*/
public native int write(byte b[], int len);
}