Re: [LUG] fgets?

["exetmp03" <exetmp03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil Williams
> Sent: 27 November 2006 10:59
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> Subject: Re: [LUG] fgets?
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:29:20 -0000
> "exetmp03" <exetmp03@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > after a problematic transfer of OS from one disk to another 
> I am trying
> > to findout which package fgets
> 
> 1. fgets is a function (C and PHP), not a package.
> 2. If it was a package, it would have that package name
> 3. If you are searching for a file within a package, use dpkg -S
> 
> Function: char * fgets (char *s, int count, FILE *stream)
> 
>     The fgets function reads characters from the stream stream up to
> and including a newline character and stores them in the string s,
> adding a null character to mark the end of the string. You must supply
> count characters worth of space in s, but the number of 
> characters read
> is at most count − 1. The extra character space is used to hold the
> null character at the end of the string.
> (GNU recommend using getline instead of fgets)
> 
> > should belong to (for some reason not all
> > of my files copied over, this being one of them)
> >
> > Anyone know which package this should belong to?
> 
> The *function* is defined in a header file:
> 
> $ grep fgets /usr/include/stdio.h
> extern char *fgets (char *__restrict __s, int __n, FILE *__restrict
> __stream); /* This function does the same as `fgets' but does not lock
> the stream. extern char *fgets_unlocked (char *__restrict 
> __s, int __n,
> 
> and would normally be accessed in a C source file via:
> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> That file is part of:
> libc6-dev: /usr/include/stdio.h
> 
> So you could say that fgets is part of libc6-dev but it's pushing the
> truth a bit.
> 
> The real question is: what made you think fgets was a file, not a
> function, and what are you actually trying to do?
> 
> --

When I run man (anything) I get
fgets file missing (from memory at work now)
and man fails

that all the output

rpm -V man gives no output as does rpm -V glibc
(this indicates no errors on rpm )

> 
> 
> Neil Williams
> =============
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