Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3

Omer Zak w1 at zak.co.il
Tue Jul 27 14:16:07 IDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:02 +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010, Israel Shikler wrote about "Alternative for getline() function in AIX 5.3":
> > I am looking for an alternative to getline(), that would be portable to both
> > Linux and AIX.
[... snipped ...]
> The second alternative is to make use of the wonderful fact that Linux is
> free software, and just take the source code of getline() and incorporate
> it in your program! I can't imagine that getline() is more than a couple
> of dozen lines - it's not that complicated... In fact, you can probably
> easily write one yourself...

... that is, if Shikler has access to a lawyer familiar with LGPLv2.1
who can certify that his application's license and terms of usage are
compatible with LGPLv2.1 (the license of stdio.h).  Things may even be
more complicated than this.

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