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+#include "cat.h"
+
+/* Function writes the contents of an opened file descriptor to stdout */
+int cfp(FILE *fp, void *buf) {
+ int br;
+
+ /* Use the buffer to read the file in blocks, writing each block to stdout
+ * as we go */
+ while ((br = fread(buf, 1, BUFLEN, fp)) > 0) {
+ if (fwrite(buf, 1, br, stdout) == 0) {
+ perror(__FUNCTION__);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /* If the last return value for br() was -1, there was an error; 0 is what
+ * we expect */
+ if (ferror(fp) != 0 || ferror(stdout) != 0) {
+ perror(__FUNCTION__);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Force a write of any still-buffered data to stdout */
+ if (fflush(stdout) != 0) {
+ perror(__FUNCTION__);
+ return -1;
+ }
+
+ /* Return success, since apparently nothing went wrong before we got here
+ * */
+ return 0;
+}
+