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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:16:20 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: fgets behaviour after eof

the C standard requires that

"If end-of-file is encountered and no characters have been read into the
array, the contents of the array remain unchanged and a null pointer is
returned. If a read error occurs during the operation, the array contents
are indeterminate and a null pointer is returned."

but musl's fgets always terminates the buffer with \0 even after EOF,
this is easy to fix:

-       *p = 0;
+       if (s) *p = 0;

However the behaviour of fgets(s, 1, f) is unclear if feof(f) is true,
in this case nothing is read so fgets cannot "encounter" end-of-file,
so it may set s[0]=0 and return s or it could check feof and return 0.
(glibc does not check feof)

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