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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: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 04:33:17 +0100
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On 15.02.2025 19:29, Michael S wrote:
> 
> One obvious possibility is to return # of characters read instead of
> pointer. Then 0 can mean EOF and negative values can mean I/O errors.
> But that is also not sufficiently boring.

But isn't that the (already existing) interface that 'fread()' had
been designed for?

Janis