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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:56:33 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Priorities for next release?
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 04:51:28PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > I'm sending fgetln.c (+my diff), but please check it...
> > btw. it based on /usr.bin/make/util.c from OpenBSD:
>
> If we add fgetln, I'd like a much higher quality of implementation.
> It's not clear from the past documentation I've read for this function
> that it's allowed to use a shared static buffer for all FILEs, and
> even if it were, I find that really ugly. Instead, simply returning a
Indeed, even the man page you included states that the returned buffer
becomes invalid after the next I/O operation on stream, not after a
call to fgetln on a different stream. Thus I think the implementation
fails to conform to the contract documented in the man page..
Rich
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