freebsd man page for openpam_readline

OPENPAM_READLINE(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				       OPENPAM_READLINE(3)

NAME
     openpam_readline -- read a line from a file

LIBRARY
     Pluggable Authentication Module Library (libpam, -lpam)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/types.h>
     #include <stdio.h>
     #include <security/pam_appl.h>
     #include <security/openpam.h>

     char *
     openpam_readline(FILE *f, int *lineno, size_t *lenp);

DESCRIPTION
     This function is deprecated and may be removed in a future release without further warning.  The openpam_readlinev() function may be used to
     achieve similar results.

     The openpam_readline() function reads a line from a file, and returns it in a NUL-terminated buffer allocated with malloc(3).

     The openpam_readline() function performs a certain amount of processing on the data it reads:

     o	 Comments (introduced by a hash sign) are stripped.

     o	 Blank lines are ignored.

     o	 If a line ends in a backslash, the backslash is stripped and the next line is appended.

     If lineno is not NULL, the integer variable it points to is incremented every time a newline character is read.

     If lenp is not NULL, the length of the line (not including the terminating NUL character) is stored in the variable it points to.

     The caller is responsible for releasing the returned buffer by passing it to free(3).

RETURN VALUES
     The openpam_readline() function returns NULL on failure.

SEE ALSO
     openpam_readlinev(3), openpam_readword(3), pam(3)

STANDARDS
     The openpam_readline() function is an OpenPAM extension.

AUTHORS
     The openpam_readline() function and this manual page were developed for the FreeBSD Project by ThinkSec AS and Network Associates Laborato-
     ries, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (``CBOSS''), as part of the
     DARPA CHATS research program.

     The OpenPAM library is maintained by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@des.no>.

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