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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Buffer contents well-defined after fgets() reaches EOF ?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 17:28:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-14, Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:10:50 GMT
> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote:
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>> 
>> If you're reading non-string data use read/pread/mmap.
>
>
> I don't know about you, but in decades of practice I didn't yet
> encounter a situation when I can trust a file input with 100%
> certainty.

With a little care, you can cheerfully process through a binary
executables with fgets, if you open the stream in binary mode (or on
Unixes where you don't have to).

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