A libio patch
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Sat Oct 31 18:30:00 GMT 1998
>
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
>
> > Wed Oct 28 19:29:29 1998 H.J. Lu <hjl@gnu.org>
> >
> > * libio/iogetline.c ((_IO_getline_info): Don't read again if
> > there is nothing to read.
>
> This cannot be right. If the input stream is line buffered the read
> will return a short input and and if we have a deliminiter != '\n' we
> return a wrong value.
>
> Please show me an example program showing the problem.
>
It is buried inside the VSX-PCT code. Basically it opens a pipe
between 2 processes. The writer writes "foo" and the reader uses fgets
to read the pipe. It expects fgets returns "foo", not NULL.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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