GETLINE(3P)

🌸 GETLINE(3P) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖 — this is the POSIX page for getline, not the Linux one, so heads up:

⚠️ This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. like, literally check your own system before you @ me 💀

✨ NAME ✨

getline — read a delimited record from stream 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <stdio.h>

ssize_t getline(char **restrict lineptr, size_t *restrict n,
    FILE *restrict stream);

yes she takes three args and yes they're all restrict, periodt 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

Bestie, this one's a redirect: refer to getdelim(). That's it. That's the whole description. iconic minimalism fr fr ✨

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

and like, any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format 🙈 — to report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

okay that's the whole page, love u, go read getdelim(3P) next 🌸 This was the IEEE/The Open Group edition from 2017 — mwah, bye bestie 💖✨🫶