No getline() in stdio.h?

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Eric Blake wrote:

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> According to George Morgan on 7/7/2005 2:12 AM:
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>>Ok, I was reading about the virtues of using getline and then looked in cygwin's
>>stdio.h and it is not there!  Did it get removed?  Yeah, I found the __getline
>>but when I changed my C code to use that the linker does not find it.  This is
>>with cygwin DLL version 1.5.18 and gcc 3.4.4.  Maybe I need to use an older
>>compiler?
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> An alternative is to investigate using the gnulib module in your code.
> gnulib is currently designed for CVS use only (so there is no cygwin
> distribution), but projects like coreutils use gnulib getline() and other
> modules to make up for non-standard functions that are missing in various
> platform libraries. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/


Same approach as libgen? Are dirname() and basename() included?

I would appreciate if at least the included functions could be listed in
the manual.  However, it isn't.  Do you have the archive handy and if 
so, would you please dump a list of included symbols
(nm libgnulib.a | grep ' T ')?


Gerrit

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