Re: Staticaly allocated buffers in library. Is it correct?

[Matt Dillon]

:>:> > hold one line from parsed file. Usually it is enough for one line, but
:>:...
:
:>    Yes.  System libraries traditionally use statically allocated buffers
:>    because, even now, there is no dynamic equivalent for fgets().  The
:>    closest you can get is to mmap() the file and extract the lines that
:>    way.
:
:How about fgetln(3)?
:
:    /Mikko
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: Mikko Työläjä[EMAIL PROTECTED]

    Sure, if all you want to do is compile your program on a *BSD box. 
    But fgetln() is a stupid function... it doesn't return a nul-terminated
    string, for example.  It's a bad hack.

                                        -Matt



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