Re: Proposed submissions for the revision from The Open Group

[Joerg Schilling <yyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gunnar Ritter <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Garrett Wollman <yyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > getline()
> >
> > The interface seems reasonable, if a bit baroque.  Will there be
> > wide-character versions of these interfaces as well?  And why these
> > and not the much simpler fgetln() interface from 4.4BSD?
>
> The fgetln() interface may be simpler, but it is inferior since it
> does not allow the programmer to allocate the buffer on his own,

Maybe, I should mention again (I did this already a long time ago)
the interface of getline()/fgetline() that was in use on a UNIX clone
since at least 19812?

    int getline(char * buffer, int length)

    Returns either the number of bytes in the buffer or EOF (-1)


    int fgetline(FILE *f, char * buffer, int length)

RETURNS
     >=0  the number of bytes read.

     EOF (-1)  if an error occurred.


Jörg

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