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| author | Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@debian.org> | 2005-12-04 20:03:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2017-02-20 00:05:33 -0800 |
| commit | 69d4f1c761291d2c33c4b22454877402465b2c48 (patch) | |
| tree | e46e0725a432b1f6460515fa521da6bb174bb226 /lineio.txi | |
| parent | f351d4a6571016e8a571e274032891e06e03911a (diff) | |
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Import Debian changes 3a2-3debian/3a2-3
slib (3a2-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Brought all source files up-to-date with upstream CVS.
Repeat changes from version 3a2-1 in Makefile.
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@@ -46,5 +46,10 @@ which case it defaults to the value returned by a temporary file. @code{system->line} calls @code{system} with @var{command} as argument, redirecting stdout to file @var{tmp}. @code{system->line} returns a string containing the first line of output from @var{tmp}. + +@code{system->line} is intended to be a portable method for getting one-line results +from programs like @code{pwd}, @code{whoami}, @code{hostname}, +@code{which}, @code{identify}, and @code{cksum}. Its behavior when +called with programs which generate lots of output is unspecified. @end defun |