On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:44:06PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 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? Just a bit (I'm not sufficiently GNUish). I've seens lots of software that inclues, for example, getopt.c. I've worked with code that has its own dirname.c and basename.c. And I have a particular use for an asprintf.c, though I don't actually know how to this the right way (yet!).
On Debian, we have /usr/share/gnulib/lib/getline.c which you're supposed to be able to pull into your own projects using this strange /usr/bin/gnulib-tool foo. The idea being that you can work in a "gnu environment" even when not linking against glibc. This is deliberately true for pretty much all the gnu specific stuff. I just think it would be convenient to reference the function to make it more easily visible. That is the full extant of my current knowledge here :/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
