Change fgetln to return the correct length value Set len to 0 on error conditions to mimmic FreeBSD behaviour, and return the amount of read characters on success, instead of the allocated size by getline. Reported-by: Jief L. <jief1.l@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/src/fgetln.c b/src/fgetln.c
index e59028b..2e6eac9 100644
--- a/src/fgetln.c
+++ b/src/fgetln.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Hector Garcia Alvarez
- * Copyright (C) 2005, 2008 Guillem Jover
+ * Copyright (C) 2005, 2008, 2009 Guillem Jover
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -35,16 +35,17 @@ char *
fgetln (FILE *stream, size_t *len)
{
char *line = NULL;
+ size_t line_len = 0;
ssize_t nread;
- nread = getline (&line, len, stream);
- if (nread == -1)
+ nread = getline(&line, &line_len, stream);
+ if (nread == -1) {
+ *len = 0;
return NULL;
-
- /* Get rid of the trailing \0, fgetln does not have it. */
- (*len)--;
-
- return line;
+ } else {
+ *len = (size_t)nread;
+ return line;
+ }
}
#endif