Re: [Nmh-workers] corruption when attaching all-null files

[Eric Gillespie]

Lyndon Nerenberg <address@hidden> writes:

> Oy.  But given how Apple loves to arbitrarily break long
> standing UNIX APIs and runtime behaviours, I am unsympathetic
> to their plight :-P

It's a GNUism.  Mac probably has the BSD equivalent, fgetln(3).

> That said, we could import our own implementation of getline()
> and use that if the underlying OS doesn't have one.  I just
> took a quick peek at the FreeBSD implementation of getline()
> and it looks like it would import with little pain.

Does nmh support any systems with neither getline nor fgetln?