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| author | das <das@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-06 13:50:04 +0000 |
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| committer | das <das@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-04-06 13:50:04 +0000 |
| commit | fb819f095f929ce46d622b8dc0e53ea46e567847 (patch) | |
| tree | 55b9d467c4c819ca6310500170877ae242edc70b /lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 | |
| parent | 53892e266cca1404bd5eb8d36e56d0a00a649da7 (diff) | |
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Return -1 instead of 0 upon reaching EOF. This is somewhat ill-advised
because it means getdelim() returns -1 for both error and EOF, and
never returns 0. However, this is what the original GNU implementation
does, and POSIX inherited the bug.
Reported by: marcus@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdio/getline.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 index 096331a..0465f93 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/getline.3 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd February 28, 2009 +.Dd March 29, 2009 .Dt GETLINE 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ and functions return the number of characters written, excluding the terminating .Dv NUL . -The value \-1 is returned if an error occurs. +The value \-1 is returned if an error occurs, or if end-of-file is reached. .Sh EXAMPLES The following code fragment reads lines from a file and writes them to standard output. |
