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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Buffer contents well-defined after fgets() reaches EOF ?
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:44:27 +0100
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On 10.02.2025 02:06, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
> On Sun 2/9/2025 3:52 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 23:12:44 -0800, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
>>
>>> If `fgets` reads nothing (instant end-of-file), the entire buffer
>>> remains untouched.
>>
>> You mean, only a single null byte gets written.

This was actually what I feared some implementation might do
(unless it's specified by the "C" standard, which luckily is,
as has been shown and got quoted in this thread).

> No. The buffer is not changed at all in such case.

Which had been the good news.

Janis