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From: lacey@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: getline bug in gawk 2.10
Message-ID: <8320@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 89 01:35:23 GMT
Reply-To: lacey@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (John Lacey)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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This is a bug report, for gawk version 2.10.  I'm using gawk on
a Gould running UTX/3.2.  This is BSD 4.3 compatible as far as 
I can tell.

The problem is this:

	getline <filename

hangs if 'filename' does not exist, rather than returning a -1.  The 
context I am using this is 

	if (getline <filename > 0) 
		:
	else
		:

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