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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)fgetln.3 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/19/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd February 15, 2016
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.Dt FGETLN 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm fgetln
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.Nd get a line from a stream
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In stdio.h
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.Ft char *
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.Fn fgetln "FILE *stream" "size_t *len"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn fgetln
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function
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returns a pointer to the next line from the stream referenced by
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.Fa stream .
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This line is
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.Em not
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a C string as it does not end with a terminating
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.Dv NUL
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character.
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The length of the line, including the final newline,
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is stored in the memory location to which
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.Fa len
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points.
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(Note, however, that if the line is the last
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in a file that does not end in a newline,
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the returned text will not contain a newline.)
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion a pointer is returned;
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this pointer becomes invalid after the next
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.Tn I/O
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operation on
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.Fa stream
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(whether successful or not)
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or as soon as the stream is closed.
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Otherwise,
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.Dv NULL
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is returned.
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The
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.Fn fgetln
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function
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does not distinguish between end-of-file and error; the routines
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.Xr feof 3
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and
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.Xr ferror 3
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must be used
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to determine which occurred.
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If an error occurs, the global variable
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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The end-of-file condition is remembered, even on a terminal, and all
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subsequent attempts to read will return
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.Dv NULL
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until the condition is
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cleared with
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.Xr clearerr 3 .
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.Pp
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The text to which the returned pointer points may be modified,
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provided that no changes are made beyond the returned size.
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These changes are lost as soon as the pointer becomes invalid.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The argument
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.Fa stream
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is not a stream open for reading.
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.It Bq Er ENOMEM
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The internal line buffer could not be expanded due to lack of available memory,
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or because it would need to expand beyond INT_MAX in size.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn fgetln
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function
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may also fail and set
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.Va errno
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for any of the errors specified for the routines
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.Xr fflush 3 ,
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.Xr malloc 3 ,
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.Xr read 2 ,
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.Xr stat 2 ,
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or
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.Xr realloc 3 .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ferror 3 ,
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.Xr fgets 3 ,
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.Xr fgetwln 3 ,
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.Xr fopen 3 ,
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.Xr getline 3 ,
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.Xr putc 3
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn fgetln
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function first appeared in
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.Bx 4.4 .
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