Gio.BufferedInputStream.fill
Description: Reference for Gio.BufferedInputStream.fill

### Virtual Method

# Gio BufferedInputStreamfill

#### Declaration [src]

    gssize
    fill (
      GBufferedInputStream* stream,
      gssize count,
      GCancellable* cancellable,
      GError** error
    )

#### Description [src]

Tries to read `count` bytes from the stream into the buffer. Will block during this read.

If `count` is zero, returns zero and does nothing. A value of `count` larger than `G_MAXSSIZE` will cause a `G_IO_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT` error.

On success, the number of bytes read into the buffer is returned. It is not an error if this is not the same as the requested size, as it can happen e.g. near the end of a file. Zero is returned on end of file (or if `count` is zero), but never otherwise.

If `count` is -1 then the attempted read size is equal to the number of bytes that are required to fill the buffer.

If `cancellable` is not `NULL`, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error `G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED` will be returned. If an operation was partially finished when the operation was cancelled the partial result will be returned, without an error.

On error `-1` is returned and `error` is set accordingly.

For the asynchronous, non-blocking, version of this function, see `g_buffered_input_stream_fill_async()`.

#### Parameters

`count`

  Type: `gssize`

  The number of bytes that will be read from the stream.

`cancellable`

  Type: `GCancellable`

  Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the method.

`error`

  Type: `GError **`

  The return location for a recoverable error.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  If the return location is not `NULL`, then you must initialize it to a `NULL` `GError*`.
  The argument will be left initialized to `NULL` by the virtual function if there are no errors.
  In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated `GError`; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gssize`

The number of bytes read into `stream`‘s buffer, up to `count`, or `-1` on error.