:> fgets() with the proper length limitation, using a statically allocated
:> buffer is not a big deal. Most configuration files couldn't have long
:> lines and still be legal anyway.
:
:Note that the classical loop
: while (fgets(buf, n, fp) != NULL) {
: tokenize(buf, args...);
: ...
: }
:may have problems if the line is too long, so one needs to detect it by
:looking for the '\n'. if none is found, then one can either abort on error
:or ignore the line. In the latter case, you need to read the remaining chars
:so that the next fgets won't get them.
:
:regards,
:mouss
Yes, but we are talking about simple stupid config files here. Programs
which actually tokenize an input stream typically do not use fgets().
Tokenizers either use [f]lex, [f]getc(), read() (and handle the buffering
themselves), or mmap().
-Matt
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