Hello Justin,

> $subject.  for () fgets() is commonly used to read a line of unknown
> length, functionality which is already implemented (with a
> probably-better implementation) in getline().  This is glibc specific,
> but it is my understanding that sufficiently gnuish people can use it
> portably with some gnulib foo.

Can you be more precise -- give me some further detail on the last 
sentence?

Cheers,

Michael

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