Debian Bug report logs - #364772
manpages-dev: please make fgets() SEE ALSO getline()

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: manpages-dev: please make fgets() SEE ALSO getline()

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:52:05 -0400

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.22-1
Severity: wishlist

$subject.  for () fgets() is commonly used to read a line of unknown
length, functionality which is already implemented (with a
probably-better implementation) in getline().  This is glibc specific,
but it is my understanding that sufficiently gnuish people can use it
portably with some gnulib foo.

Message #10 received at 364772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>

To: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>,364772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#364772: manpages-dev: please make fgets() SEE ALSO getline()

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:44:06 +0200 (MEST)

Hello Justin,

> $subject.  for () fgets() is commonly used to read a line of unknown
> length, functionality which is already implemented (with a
> probably-better implementation) in getline().  This is glibc specific,
> but it is my understanding that sufficiently gnuish people can use it
> portably with some gnulib foo.

Can you be more precise -- give me some further detail on the last 
sentence?

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 

Want to help with man page maintenance?  
Grab the latest tarball at
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, 
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source 
files for 'FIXME'.

Message #15 received at 364772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>, 364772@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#364772: manpages-dev: please make fgets() SEE ALSO getline()

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:50:41 -0400

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:44:06PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hello Justin,
> 
> > $subject.  for () fgets() is commonly used to read a line of unknown
> > length, functionality which is already implemented (with a
> > probably-better implementation) in getline().  This is glibc specific,
> > but it is my understanding that sufficiently gnuish people can use it
> > portably with some gnulib foo.
> 
> Can you be more precise -- give me some further detail on the last 
> sentence?
Just a bit (I'm not sufficiently GNUish).  I've seens lots of software
that inclues, for example, getopt.c.  I've worked with code that has
its own dirname.c and basename.c.  And I have a particular use for an
asprintf.c, though I don't actually know how to this the right way
(yet!).

On Debian, we have /usr/share/gnulib/lib/getline.c which you're
supposed to be able to pull into your own projects using this strange
/usr/bin/gnulib-tool foo.  The idea being that you can work in a "gnu
environment" even when not linking against glibc.

This is deliberately true for pretty much all the gnu specific stuff.
I just think it would be convenient to reference the function to make
it more easily visible.

That is the full extant of my current knowledge here :/

Message #20 received at 364772@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>

To: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

Cc: 364772@bugs.debian.org,control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#364772: manpages-dev: please make fgets() SEE ALSO getline()

Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:35:18 +0200 (MEST)

tags 364772 fixed-upstream
thanks

Justin thanks for the info.  Change made for 2.31.

Cheers,

Michael

getline.3
    Justin Pryzby
        Add SEE ALSO pointing to getline.3.
        See Debian bug 364772


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 

Want to help with man page maintenance?  
Grab the latest tarball at
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, 
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source 
files for 'FIXME'.

Message #27 received at 364772-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 364772-done@bugs.debian.org, 367014-done@bugs.debian.org, 367851-done@bugs.debian.org, 368646-done@bugs.debian.org, 368995-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>

Subject: fixed in recent uploads of manpages ("My 2006 Bugs" edition)

Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:07:09 -0500

Version: 2.39-1

These bugs are all reported fixed by the upstream manpages maintainer,
Michael Kerrisk.  For my own convenience, I'm marking them all as
"fixed by version 2.39-1", even though some of them are fixed by
earlier uploads.  The bug number, reported fixed-in version, and title
are listed below:

 #364772 2.31 Please make fgets() SEE ALSO getline()
 #367014      Please document in open.2 that S_IREAD and friends are obsolete
 #367851 2.33 Please document strchrnul.3
 #368646 2.34 offsetof: Please include documentation
 #368995 2.34 sections with lowercase letters

Justin

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