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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:38:48 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        current <current@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   getline incompatibility with Linux
Message-ID:  <1238362728.73736.165.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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The new getline() function in FreeBSD is not completely compatible with
Linux's implementation.  The result is that programs which assume Linux
getline may enter a tight infinite loop.

According to the Linux getline(3) manpage, getline(3) returns -1 on
error (including EOF).  Our implementation returns 0 on EOF.  Would it
be possible to return -1 on EOF in our implementation?

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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