Module Name: src
Committed By: roy
Date: Mon Nov 30 23:23:29 UTC 2009
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/stdio: getdelim.3
Log Message:
Note that callers should use feof(3) or ferror(3) to distinguish between
EOF or an error.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.4 -r1.5 src/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3
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Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3:1.4 src/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3:1.5
--- src/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3:1.4 Mon Nov 30 22:51:46 2009
+++ src/lib/libc/stdio/getdelim.3 Mon Nov 30 23:23:29 2009
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: getdelim.3,v 1.4 2009/11/30 22:51:46 roy Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getdelim.3,v 1.5 2009/11/30 23:23:29 roy Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@
If an error occurs, the functions return \-1 and the global variable
.Va errno
is set to indicate the error.
+.Pp
+The functions do not distinguish between end-of-file and error,
+and callers must use
+.Xr feof 3
+and
+.Xr ferror 3
+to determine which occurred.
.Sh EXAMPLE
The following code fragment reads lines from a file and writes them to
standard output.
