Am 12.08.2017 um 13:57 schrieb René Scharfe: > Update: Just noticed that on the BSDs getdelim(3) doesn't set errno > to ENOMEM on allocation failure, but does set the error indicator. > That might be an oversight on their part, but that means we > certainly *need* to check ferror(). And an unchanged errno can > mean ENOMEM there. Ugh.. I take that back. The memory allocation function called by getdelim will of course set errno on failure. I got fooled by the manpages, which don't mention ENOMEM, e.g.: https://man.openbsd.org/getdelim. René