On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 08:20:20PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > I wonder it it would be worth adding a function that is like gets, > but takes a buffer length (ie discards the \n - and maybe the rest of the > line). > > That could be used as a compile-time substitute when the buffer > size is known - ie when 'sizeof buffer != sizeof (char *)'
I don't think that makes too much sense. If you want to read a full line, use getline. If you don't, loop with fgets until the full line is read. Joerg
