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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Provide a series of proxy functions for basic file accessors.
+ * The behavior of these functions can be changed to return different
+ * errors under a variety of conditions.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _UPDATER_OTA_IO_H_
+#define _UPDATER_OTA_IO_H_
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+int ota_open(const char* path, int oflags);
+
+int ota_open(const char* path, int oflags, mode_t mode);
+
+FILE* ota_fopen(const char* filename, const char* mode);
+
+int ota_close(int fd);
+
+int ota_fclose(FILE* fh);
+
+size_t ota_fread(void* ptr, size_t size, size_t nitems, FILE* stream);
+
+ssize_t ota_read(int fd, void* buf, size_t nbyte);
+
+size_t ota_fwrite(const void* ptr, size_t size, size_t count, FILE* stream);
+
+ssize_t ota_write(int fd, const void* buf, size_t nbyte);
+
+int ota_fsync(int fd);
+
+#endif