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38 .Dt OPENPAM_READLINE 3
42 .Nd read a line from a file
48 .In security/pam_appl.h
49 .In security/openpam.h
51 .Fn openpam_readline "FILE *f" "int *lineno" "size_t *lenp"
54 This function is deprecated and may be removed in a future release without further warning.
57 function may be used to achieve similar results.
62 function reads a line from a file, and returns it
63 in a NUL-terminated buffer allocated with
68 function performs a certain amount of processing
72 Comments (introduced by a hash sign) are stripped.
74 Blank lines are ignored.
76 If a line ends in a backslash, the backslash is stripped and the
77 next line is appended.
84 the integer variable it points to is
85 incremented every time a newline character is read.
91 the length of the line (not including the
92 terminating NUL character) is stored in the variable it points to.
94 The caller is responsible for releasing the returned buffer by passing
105 .Xr openpam_readlinev 3 ,
106 .Xr openpam_readword 3 ,
111 function is an OpenPAM extension.
115 function and this manual page were
118 Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laboratories, the
119 Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc.\& under
120 DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035
122 as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.