Hi Luke an others :-),

[... excellent problemdescription deleted ...]

> I believe that a better approach is to modify fgetln(3) so that the
> string *is* NUL terminated, even if the length field isn't modified to
> take this into account. Examination of the source code for fgetln(3)
[...]
> Are they any comments or objections to enabling this functionality?

I agree with your idea!
The only problem might be third party code. What does posix
say about this function?

  Guenther