Re: [bug?] getline is not fatal when posix is forced

[Seb]

Le Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:35:02 +0200
Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> a écrit:

> Hi. You have found a bug in the documentation.  I'm not sure why I thought
> getline in posix mode on a non-existant or unreadable file was fatal,
> but neither mawk, nawk, nor gawk treat it that way.

Ok, hence in all cases this way to proceed (the most effiscient) is pratically
portable . :)

> I will double check the standard, but I think the documentation is just
> wrong and I'll fix it.

Thanks. I glanced at this:

  http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html

It is only said that getline() returns "-1" when it encounters an error. So,
effectively, it would be weird to define a standard value to return without
letting any possibility to deal with it.

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Seb