Re: 01-getnline.diff

Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Incidentally, my glibc defines both getdelim & getline to return
> ssize_t.  Is it intentional that the GNULIB versions return int
> instead?

It looks like getline's `int' return type in gnulib is purely historical.
It dates back to the earliest revision I have, from textutils-1.12 (1995).
I see no reason for such a limitation.  ssize_t makes more sense.

FWIW, I too needed getdelim2 for coreutils, and moved it into a
separate file there.  If you do something similar for gnulib before
I get to it, that'd be great.
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