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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-05-17 13:18:34 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-05-17 13:18:34 +0000
commit4e88ae78928bd21628583e353e3e31bc0078bc7d (patch)
treead2452caadde4ef03e070673e1825dd68498b954 /lib
parent37dfecb6e7d404f7b4e0a5186e85e0b76af6b662 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-4e88ae78928bd21628583e353e3e31bc0078bc7d.tar.xz
Sync with gnulib.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/getndelim2.h29
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/lib/getndelim2.h b/lib/getndelim2.h
index d9bafe3b4..39f80cb55 100644
--- a/lib/getndelim2.h
+++ b/lib/getndelim2.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
/* getndelim2 - Read a line from a stream, stopping at one of 2 delimiters,
with bounded memory allocation.
- Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -20,23 +20,24 @@
#ifndef GETNDELIM2_H
#define GETNDELIM2_H 1
-#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
-
-/* Get ssize_t. */
#include <sys/types.h>
-/* Read up to (and including) a delimiter DELIM1 from STREAM into *LINEPTR
- + OFFSET (and NUL-terminate it). If DELIM2 is non-zero, then read up
- and including the first occurrence of DELIM1 or DELIM2. *LINEPTR is
- a pointer returned from malloc (or NULL), pointing to *LINESIZE bytes of
- space. It is realloc'd as necessary. Reallocation is limited to
- NMAX bytes; if the line is longer than that, the extra bytes are read but
- thrown away.
+#define GETNLINE_NO_LIMIT ((size_t) -1)
+
+/* Read into a buffer *LINEPTR returned from malloc (or NULL),
+ pointing to *LINESIZE bytes of space. Store the input bytes
+ starting at *LINEPTR + OFFSET, and null-terminate them. Reallocate
+ the buffer as necessary, but if NMAX is not GETNLINE_NO_LIMIT
+ then do not allocate more than NMAX bytes; if the line is longer
+ than that, read and discard the extra bytes. Stop reading after
+ after the first occurrence of DELIM1 or DELIM2, whichever comes
+ first; a delimiter equal to EOF stands for no delimiter. Read the
+ input bytes from STREAM.
Return the number of bytes read and stored at *LINEPTR + OFFSET (not
including the NUL terminator), or -1 on error or EOF. */
-extern ssize_t getndelim2 (char **lineptr, size_t *linesize, size_t nmax,
- FILE *stream, int delim1, int delim2,
- size_t offset);
+extern ssize_t getndelim2 (char **lineptr, size_t *linesize, size_t offset,
+ size_t nmax, int delim1, int delim2,
+ FILE *stream);
#endif /* GETNDELIM2_H */