[Bug-gnulib] Re: getline bug?

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> But before we head down that route, wouldn't it be better simply to
> remove the linebuffer module and rewrite all its invokers to use
> getline?  I don't see the point of the linebuffer module, to be
> honest: I suspect it's just leftovers from ancient code that was
> written before getline was available.

FWIW, I agree with this.  I wasted a few hours rewriting code to use
linebuffer, when I should have used getline from the start.

I doubt it was widely used, at least not by anyone calling
freebuffer(), since I discovered that the function crashed.