Glynn Clements wrote: > > FWIW, I suggest changing the existing behaviour [of G_getl2()] so that it > always > reads an entire line, even if it can't store it all. IOW, read until > EOL or EOF, stop storing characters once the buffer is full. +1
> > Unlike with fgets(), which stores the line terminator in the buffer, > there is no way for the caller of G_getl2() to determine that an > incomplete line was read. If the buffer is too small, you lose either > way; discarding the trailing characters is likely to be more robust > than returning them as if they were a subsequent line (the current > behaviour). The caller could know if a line was only partially read if G_getl2() would return -1 (anything but 0, 1) in case the buffer is too small. Markus M _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev