1 /* getnline - Read a line from a stream, with bounded memory allocation.
3 Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2009-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
22 #include <sys/types.h>
24 #define GETNLINE_NO_LIMIT ((size_t) -1)
26 /* Read a line, up to the next newline, from STREAM, and store it in *LINEPTR.
27 *LINEPTR is a pointer returned from malloc (or NULL), pointing to *LINESIZE
28 bytes of space. It is realloc'd as necessary. Reallocation is limited to
29 NMAX bytes; if the line is longer than that, the extra bytes are read but
31 Return the number of bytes read and stored at *LINEPTR (not including the
32 NUL terminator), or -1 on error or EOF. */
33 extern ssize_t getnline (char **lineptr, size_t *linesize, size_t nmax,
36 /* Read a line, up to the next occurrence of DELIMITER, from STREAM, and store
38 *LINEPTR is a pointer returned from malloc (or NULL), pointing to *LINESIZE
39 bytes of space. It is realloc'd as necessary. Reallocation is limited to
40 NMAX bytes; if the line is longer than that, the extra bytes are read but
42 Return the number of bytes read and stored at *LINEPTR (not including the
43 NUL terminator), or -1 on error or EOF. */
44 extern ssize_t getndelim (char **lineptr, size_t *linesize, size_t nmax,
45 int delimiter, FILE *stream);
47 #endif /* GETNLINE_H */