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12.21.3 Programming Your Own Custom Streams

This section describes how you can make a stream that gets input from an arbitrary data source or writes output to an arbitrary data sink programmed by you. We call these custom streams. The functions and types described here are all GNU extensions.

12.21.3.1 Custom Streams and Cookies The cookie records where to fetch or store data that is read or written.

12.21.3.2 Custom Stream Hook Functions How you should define the four hook functions that a custom stream needs.

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12.21.3.1 Custom Streams and Cookies		The cookie records where to fetch or store data that is read or written.
12.21.3.2 Custom Stream Hook Functions		How you should define the four hook functions that a custom stream needs.