[patch] make getline return description match the code

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sat Jan 6 15:17:00 GMT 2001


Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> If getline() reads a line with no newline, and reaches EOF, it still
> returns the number of bytes read, and not -1 as the documentation
> implies. This patch just clarifies that.

Thanks, I've applied it.

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