GETLINE(3POSIX)

🦋 GETLINE(3POSIX) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, quick vibe check before we dive in: this page lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💅. That matters, because —

📢 PROLOG

heads up!! this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of Linux behavior), or honestly? the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. no cap. check before you ship 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

getline — read a delimited record from stream 🌈

like. that's the whole job. read a record. it's delimited. from a stream. iconic behavior honestly.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdio.h>

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

the way that signature is just chef's kiss 🧚

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Refer to getdelim().

that's it. that's the description. she's a girl of few words but the words she does say are load-bearing. go read getdelim() bestie, she has the whole lore 🔥

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legally I have to tell you all of this and I'm gonna, word for word, because the facts don't change no matter how cute the font is:

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.

and fr fr, if this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard ever disagree? the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. periodt. the original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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 . 💀 (not me being the messenger for the typos)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! written under IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, filed under GETLINE(3POSIX) — slay, ate, no crumbs, go read getdelim() 🎀✨💜