Eric Blake wrote:
FreeBSD is buggy. Rewording the POSIX requirement slightly: if lineptr is
NULL, then it is irrelevant that linecapp is non-zero.
I agree.
Gnulib needs to work around this portability flaw, and guarantee a working
getline implementation even on fBSD, at which point, your
2010-01-31 Bruno Haible br...@clisp.org
Work around getline() bug on FreeBSD 8.0.
* m4/getline.m4 (gl_FUNC_GETLINE): Also test result for a NULL buffer
and a non-zero size.
* tests/test-getline.c (main): Likewise.
* doc/posix-functions/getline.texi: Mention
[adding bug-gnulib, as the source of tar's getline replacement]
According to noordsij on 1/21/2010 6:37 AM:
Dear GNU tar maintainer(s) / fBSD gtar port maintainer(s),
The problem appears to be a difference in getline() behaviour in the fBSD
and GNU libc.
fBSD: The
caller may provide
