In a message of 03 Dec 95 Paul Edwards wrote to All:

 PE> Why is fgets defined as...

 PE> char *fgets(char *s, int n, FILE *stream);

 PE> instead of 

 PE> char *fgets(char *s, size_t n, FILE *stream);

 PE> ???  BFN.  Paul.

Because it represents the maximum nubber of bytes the function will read ,
even if it doesn't find an EOL character. It is not the actual size of the
line it will read.


Jeff Lockwood

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