Why __getline and not just getline?

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Thu Jul 7 10:47:00 GMT 2005


----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 07 July 2005 11:32

> Hi,
> 
> can anybody tell me why the getline and getdelim functions are
> double-underscored (__getline, __getdelim) and not just exported
> as getline and getdelim as in glibc?  Would it hurt to change this?
> 
> 
> Corinna


  Perhaps they should be exported under the names fgetline and fgetdelim,
since they fit with the other f-* functions in stdio?



    cheers,
      DaveK
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