4 The line_buffer library provides a convenient interface for
5 mostly-line-oriented input.
7 Each line is not permitted to exceed 10000 bytes. The provided
8 functions are not thread-safe or async-signal-safe, and like
9 `fgets()`, they generally do not function correctly if interrupted
10 by a signal without SA_RESTART set.
17 - specifies a file to read with `buffer_init`
18 - processes input with `buffer_read_line`, `buffer_read_string`,
19 `buffer_skip_bytes`, and `buffer_copy_bytes`
20 - closes the file with `buffer_deinit`, perhaps to start over and
23 Before exiting, the caller can use `buffer_reset` to deallocate
24 resources for the benefit of profiling tools.
30 Open the named file for input. If filename is NULL,
31 start reading from stdin. On failure, returns -1 (with
32 errno indicating the nature of the failure).
35 Stop reading from the current file (closing it unless
36 it was stdin). Returns nonzero if `fclose` fails or
37 the error indicator was set.
40 Read a line and strip off the trailing newline.
41 On failure or end of file, returns NULL.
43 `buffer_read_string`::
44 Read `len` characters of input or up to the end of the
45 file, whichever comes first. Returns NULL on error.
46 Returns whatever characters were read (possibly "")
50 Read `len` bytes of input and dump them to the standard output
51 stream. Returns early for error or end of file.
54 Discards `len` bytes from the input stream (stopping early
55 if necessary because of an error or eof).
58 Deallocates non-static buffers.