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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:53:01 +0100 (MET)
From: Peter Astrand <astrand AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>
To: Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn AT redhat DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, newlib AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject: Re: short fread(), but no ferror/feof
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Jeff Johnston wrote:

> > "fread() shall return the number of elements successfully read which is
> > less than nitems only if a read error or end-of-file is encountered."
> >
>
> Where in the POSIX standard did you find that above line?  I could not locate it
> in mine.  The line above is in SUSV3.

The manpage fread(P) on Fedora Core 2. Is that SUSV3? The last line says
"POSIX", though.


> Regardless, the behavior is wrong.  The same test on a buffered file yields the EOF.
>
> I have posted a patch.

Great!


/Peter Åstrand <astrand AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>


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