On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 03:36:07PM +0100, Bernd Edlinger wrote: > if you want to read zero-chars, why don't you simply use fgetc, > optionally replacing '\0' with ' ' in read_line?
Because it is too slow?
getline(3) would be much better for this purpose, though of course
it is a GNU extension in glibc and so we'd need some fallback, which
very well could be the fgetc or something similar.
Jakub
