Re: Function read_line in liolib.c

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Robert Raschke wrote:
> Maybe the documentation needs to state that lines(), read("*n"), and
> read("*l") work on text files, not binary? I don't think these
> functions make any sense for binary files.

May be it needs to state something like:

"output of these functions is undefined if the processed file
contain null characters"

(because there seems to be no standard providing definition
of the term "text file").

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Shmuel