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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Mumit Khan" <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>,
	"Uwe Pahner" <uwe DOT pahner AT esat DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject:	Re: fscanf does not return EOF
Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:53:52 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mumit Khan" <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: "Uwe Pahner" <uwe DOT pahner AT esat DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: fscanf does not return EOF


> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Uwe Pahner wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
>
> I suggest portable coding, where you read the lines one by one using
> fgets, checking for EOF, and if not, pass the line buffer it to
sscanf.
> Or, use fscanf, but check explicitly for eof on the stream when you
> see a return value of 0.
>
> I may of course be reading the specification wrong.
>
> Regards,
> Mumit
>

I think you're right: I am using fscanf in my fifo tests, and the first
iteration was written without checking the specs:].. as soon as I ran
man 3 fscanf on my opsnBSD machine (best man pages ever) I saw the same
point of confusion. Coding to the spec worked fine on cygwin.

Rob


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