Bug#57729: libc6: fgets() doesn't work properly on socket

[russell@coker.com.au]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.2-13
Severity: normal

I am creating a TCP socket connection in the regular fashion, then using
fdopen(fd, "r") to create a read-only file pointer for the socket.
The aim of this is to get line-buffered input from the socket.
So I am calling fgets() repreatedly on the socket.  This doesn't work
properly as when under heavy load I get partial lines returned.

If the fgets() library call is not supposed to be used on a socket then the
man page should say so (it doesn't).  So this operation should work.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux lyta 2.2.14 #1 Wed Feb 9 13:06:38 CET 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ii  ldso           1.9.11-5       The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit