Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: popen/pclose for 1.3
Keywords: pipes
Message-ID: <3311@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 21 Jan 89 23:29:53 GMT
References: <3768@druwy.ATT.COM> <442@solaria.csun.edu> <1200@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1200@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>, vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
>     gets() is implemented usually as `Read(Stdin(), sptr, 256L)'

I certainly hope this isn't true. Any implementation of the standard I/O
library that does this is badly broken. Gets should be freely intermixable
with getchar(), fread(), fgets(), and so on... it should behave as if it's:

	gets(s)
	char *s;
	{
		int c;
		char *ptr;

		while((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
			if(c=='\n') break;
			*ptr++ = c;
		}
		*ptr == 0;
		return (c==EOF)?0:s;
	}
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