On Friday, 15 February 2019 at 13:14:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter
wrote:
A lots of fgets() based tools on Unix systems fail to read the
last line if it doesn't contain a line feed character at the
end. Afaicr glibc implementation does not have that problem but
a lot of other standard C libs do.
When we were still on Solaris we had to be very careful with
that, as strange things could happen when using sed, awk, wc
and a lot of other standard Unix commands.
Now that we have switched to Linux we don't have the issue
anymore.
That makes sense. I guess I'm spoiled by GNU.
