Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:44:27 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Mikko Tyolajarvi <mikko@dynas.se> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staticaly allocated buffers in library. Is it correct? Message-ID: <200102192044.f1JKiRT38061@earth.backplane.com> References: <200102191723.f1JHNII37074@earth.backplane.com> <200102191907.f1JJ7KU66271@explorer.rsa.com>
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:>:> > hold one line from parsed file. Usually it is enough for one line, but
:>:...
:
:> Yes. System libraries traditionally use statically allocated buffers
:> because, even now, there is no dynamic equivalent for fgets(). The
:> closest you can get is to mmap() the file and extract the lines that
:> way.
:
:How about fgetln(3)?
:
: /Mikko
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: Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com
Sure, if all you want to do is compile your program on a *BSD box.
But fgetln() is a stupid function... it doesn't return a nul-terminated
string, for example. It's a bad hack.
-Matt
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