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package java.io;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
/**
* 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
* {@link FileInputStream} or {@link FileOutputStream} to contain it.
*
* <p>Applications should not create their own file descriptors.
*
* @author Pavani Diwanji
* @since JDK1.0
*/
public final class FileDescriptor {
private int fd;
private long handle;
/**
* A use counter for tracking the FIS/FOS/RAF instances that
* use this FileDescriptor. The FIS/FOS.finalize() will not release
* the FileDescriptor if it is still under use by any stream.
*/
private AtomicInteger useCount;
/**
* Constructs an (invalid) FileDescriptor
* object.
*/
public /**/ FileDescriptor() {
fd = -1;
handle = -1;
useCount = new AtomicInteger();
}
static {
initIDs();
}
// Set up JavaIOFileDescriptorAccess in SharedSecrets
static {
sun.misc.SharedSecrets.setJavaIOFileDescriptorAccess(
new sun.misc.JavaIOFileDescriptorAccess() {
public void set(FileDescriptor obj, int fd) {
obj.fd = fd;
}
public int get(FileDescriptor obj) {
return obj.fd;
}
public void setHandle(FileDescriptor obj, long handle) {
obj.handle = handle;
}
public long getHandle(FileDescriptor obj) {
return obj.handle;
}
}
);
}
/**
* 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}.
*
* @see java.lang.System#in
*/
public static final FileDescriptor in = standardStream(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}.
* @see java.lang.System#out
*/
public static final FileDescriptor out = standardStream(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}.
*
* @see java.lang.System#err
*/
public static final FileDescriptor err = standardStream(2);
/**
* Tests if this file descriptor object is valid.
*
* @return {@code true} if the file descriptor object represents a
* valid, open file, socket, or other active I/O connection;
* {@code false} otherwise.
*/
public boolean valid() {
return ((handle != -1) || (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();
private static native long set(int d);
private static FileDescriptor standardStream(int fd) {
FileDescriptor desc = new FileDescriptor();
desc.handle = set(fd);
return desc;
}
// package private methods used by FIS, FOS and RAF.
int incrementAndGetUseCount() {
return useCount.incrementAndGet();
}
int decrementAndGetUseCount() {
return useCount.decrementAndGet();
}
}