Re: adding getdelim(3) and getline(3) to libc

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> > Our libc lacks getdelim(3) and getline(3) which are in POSIX IEEE Std 
> > 1003.1-2008
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getline.html
> >
> > Attached is patch to add these fucntions and man page to our libc.
> > I've not extensively tested it, but it seems to work fine.
>
> From quick glance, it seems that new POSIX getline() duplicates the old
> BSD fgetln() functionality. Have you considered merging/sharing of code?

Yes, fgetln could be re-tooled around getline.
I'd just have to check how fgetln handles it buffers as more locking 
seems to happen there.

Thanks

Roy