Re: getline use in CVS (getline.c and getline.h files)

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> > > I think the current CVS version is not consistent with the use of the
> > > getline () function. Here is the main problems:
> 
> Fixed.
> 
> > > One solution is to remove the getline files, and to remove the
> [...]
> > > If you think this is the right way,
> 
> Surely, it is not. I have removed the duplicate getline.h from /lib
> subdir and updated Makefile.am's accordingly.
> 
> > The best way is to have a LGPL implementation of getline to fall back to.
> > 
> > Anybody have the description?  So I can make a quick implementation with
> > fgets().  Of course patches are welcome.
> 
> Hmm, but do we need to actually rewrite getline.c, Alain? When I
> started to move the necessary stuff from /lib to /mailbox some time
> ago, you wrote:
> 
>   "getline.c and argcv.c are things that we wrote, you can change"
>   "them to LGPL if that can make life easier.  I got no problem with"
>   "that."
> 
> (your message from Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:46:02 -0400 (EDT), it can be
> found in the bug-mailutils archive, thread "Fixing interlibrary deps.")

Not getline.c.
/* Written by Jan Brittenson, address@hidden  */

I do not think it is a complex task once I get my hand on the API
of getline().

> If this is actually so, then there's no problem, is there?
>