Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <01f201c0b8d5$6e9c5d60$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> From: "Robert Collins" To: "Mumit Khan" , "Uwe Pahner" Cc: References: Subject: Re: fscanf does not return EOF Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 14:53:52 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Mar 2001 04:48:40.0199 (UTC) FILETIME=[B09C6170:01C0B8D4] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mumit Khan" To: "Uwe Pahner" Cc: Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:31 PM Subject: Re: fscanf does not return EOF > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Uwe Pahner wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I suggest portable coding, where you read the lines one by one using > fgets, checking for EOF, and if not, pass the line buffer it to sscanf. > Or, use fscanf, but check explicitly for eof on the stream when you > see a return value of 0. > > I may of course be reading the specification wrong. > > Regards, > Mumit > I think you're right: I am using fscanf in my fifo tests, and the first iteration was written without checking the specs:].. as soon as I ran man 3 fscanf on my opsnBSD machine (best man pages ever) I saw the same point of confusion. Coding to the spec worked fine on cygwin. Rob -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple