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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man3/fgets.3 b/static/openbsd/man3/fgets.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0acd5b0f --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man3/fgets.3 @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: fgets.3,v 1.35 2017/12/01 11:18:40 schwarze Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by +.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3, +.\" on Information Processing Systems. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 1 2017 $ +.Dt FGETS 3 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm fgets +.Nd get a line from a stream +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In stdio.h +.Ft char * +.Fn fgets "char *str" "int size" "FILE *stream" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn fgets +function reads at most +.Ar size Ns \-1 +characters from the given +.Fa stream +and stores them in the string +.Fa str . +Reading stops when a newline character is found, +at end-of-file, on error, or after +.Ar size Ns \-1 +bytes are read. +The newline, if any, is retained. +The string will be NUL-terminated if +.Fn fgets +succeeds; otherwise the contents of +.Fa str +are undefined. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Upon successful completion, +.Fn fgets +returns a pointer to the string. +If end-of-file or an error occurs before any characters are read, +it returns +.Dv NULL . +The +.Fn fgets +function does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, +and callers must use +.Xr feof 3 +and +.Xr ferror 3 +to determine which occurred. +Whether +.Fn fgets +can possibly fail with a +.Ar size +argument of 1 is implementation-dependent. +On +.Ox , +.Fn fgets +will never return +.Dv NULL +when +.Ar size +is 1. +.Sh ERRORS +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBADF +The given +.Fa stream +is not a readable stream. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The given +.Fa size +is less than or equal to 0. +.El +.Pp +The function +.Fn fgets +may also fail and set +.Va errno +for any of the errors specified for the routines +.Xr fflush 3 , +.Xr fstat 2 , +.Xr read 2 , +or +.Xr malloc 3 . +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr feof 3 , +.Xr ferror 3 , +.Xr fgetws 3 , +.Xr getline 3 +.Sh STANDARDS +The function +.Fn fgets +conforms to +.St -ansiC . +.Sh HISTORY +The function +.Fn fgets +first appeared in +.At v7 . +.Sh CAVEATS +The following bit of code illustrates a case where the programmer assumes a +string is too long if it does not contain a newline: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +char buf[1024], *p; + +while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL) { + if ((p = strchr(buf, '\en')) == NULL) { + fprintf(stderr, "input line too long.\en"); + exit(1); + } + *p = '\e0'; + printf("%s\en", buf); +} +.Ed +.Pp +While the error would be true if a line \*(Gt 1023 characters were read, +it would be false in two other cases: +.Bl -enum -offset indent +.It +If the last line in a file does not contain a newline, the string returned by +.Fn fgets +will not contain a newline either. +Thus +.Fn strchr +will return +.Dv NULL +and the program will terminate, even if the line was valid. +.It +All C string functions, including +.Fn strchr , +correctly assume the end of the string is represented by a NUL +.Pq Sq \e0 +character. +If the first character of a line returned by +.Fn fgets +were NUL, +.Fn strchr +would immediately return without considering the rest of the returned text +which may indeed include a newline. +.El +.Pp +Consider using +.Xr getline 3 +instead when dealing with untrusted input. +.Pp +It is erroneous to assume that +.Fn fgets +never returns an empty string when successful. +If a line starts with the NUL character, fgets will store the NUL and +continue reading until it encounters a newline or end-of-file. +This will result in an empty string being returned. +The following bit of code illustrates a case where the programmer assumes +the string cannot be zero length. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +char buf[1024]; + +if (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL) { + /* WRONG */ + if (buf[strlen(buf) - 1] == '\en') + buf[strlen(buf) - 1] = '\e0'; +} +.Ed +.Pp +If +.Fn strlen +returns 0, the index into the buffer becomes \-1. +One way to concisely and correctly trim a newline is shown below. +.Bd -literal -offset indent +char buf[1024]; + +if (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp) != NULL) + buf[strcspn(buf, "\en")] = '\e0'; +.Ed |
