FILE
Header: <stdio.h>
Each FILE object denotes a C stream.
# Declarations
typedef /* unspecified */ FILE;
# Notes
POSIX explicitly requires that the LC_CTYPE facet of the currently installed C locale be stored within the FILE object the moment the stream’s orientation becomes wide; POSIX requires that this LC_CTYPE facet be used for all future I/O on this stream until the orientation is changed, regardless of any subsequent call to setlocale .
It is intended that each line of text be composed of data that are essentially human-readable. POSIX implementations do not distinguish between text and binary streams (there is no special mapping for ‘\n’ or any other characters).