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Viktor Szakats b889b39945 docs: convert man page sources to "curldown" format
To render in Git webviews as-is, to make it easier to edit, verify,
and to sync up with curl.

- add options to not build the `.3` man pages:
  - autotools: `--disable-docs`
  - cmake: `LIBSSH2_BUILD_DOCS=OFF`
- building `.3` man pages requires Perl after this patch.
- drop `mansyntax` and the shell / `grep` / GNU `man` tool requirements with it.
- scripts and most logic were copied from curl.
- add `cd2nroff` from curl, with edits to relax curl-specific checks.
- used `nroff2cd` (from curl) to convert from `.3` to `.md`. Then
  manually fixed copyrights, inline function references and a couple
  of other things.

Credits-to: Daniel Stenberg

Ref: eefcc1bda4
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/12730
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/www/issues/25#issuecomment-3289431671

Closes #1660
2025-10-09 04:05:38 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) The libssh2 project and its contributors.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Title: libssh2_sftp_read
Section: 3
Source: libssh2
See-also:
- libssh2_sftp_open_ex(3)
- libssh2_sftp_read(3)
- read(2)
---
# NAME
libssh2_sftp_read - read data from an SFTP handle
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <libssh2.h>
#include <libssh2_sftp.h>
ssize_t
libssh2_sftp_read(LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE *handle,
char *buffer, size_t buffer_maxlen);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
*handle* is the SFTP File Handle as returned by libssh2_sftp_open_ex(3)
*buffer* is a pointer to a pre-allocated buffer of at least
*buffer_maxlen* bytes to read data into.
Reads a block of data from an LIBSSH2_SFTP_HANDLE. This method is modelled
after the POSIX read(2)
function and uses the same calling semantics. libssh2_sftp_read(3)
will attempt to read as much as possible however it may not fill all of buffer
if the file pointer reaches the end or if further reads would cause the socket
to block.
# RETURN VALUE
Number of bytes actually populated into buffer, or negative on failure.
It returns LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN when it would otherwise block. While
LIBSSH2_ERROR_EAGAIN is a negative number, it is not really a failure per se.
# ERRORS
*LIBSSH2_ERROR_ALLOC* - An internal memory allocation call failed.
*LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_SEND* - Unable to send data on socket.
*LIBSSH2_ERROR_SOCKET_TIMEOUT* -
*LIBSSH2_ERROR_SFTP_PROTOCOL* - An invalid SFTP protocol response was
received on the socket, or an SFTP operation caused an errorcode to be
returned by the server.