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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Mon,  9 Jan 2012 09:18:42 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] C library function that reads up to a newline
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On Mon Jan  9 04:57:17 EST 2012, faifgnu@gmail.com wrote:
> read(2) reads up to N bytes but doesn't stop on newlines. Brdline(2)
> looks like a good candidate for that. Are there any functions
> outside Bio that behave similarly?

if you're application is one where the producer is producing
a line at a time, then read(2) will read a line at a time; plan 9
doesn't coalesce writes.  (raw tcp connections notwithstanding.)

- erik