. \" Manual Seite fuer getline . \" @(#)getline.3 1.1 . \" getline() - reads a line from standard input

 int getline(buffer,length)
 char *buffer;  int length; 

getline() reads up to length characters from the standard input using getc() (q.v.). The transfer is also terminated by a newline, end of file, or read error. The buffer is NULL ('\\0') terminated with the new line removed. Returns either the number of bytes in the buffer or a standard system error code (including EOF). getline() always reads to the end of the input line, even if the line is longer than the buffer.