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-.TH FGETWS 3 1999-07-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FGETWS 3 2011-09-28 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fgetws \- read a wide-character string from a FILE stream
.SH SYNOPSIS
function.
It reads a string of at most \fIn\-1\fP wide characters into the
wide-character array pointed to by \fIws\fP,
-and adds a terminating L\(aq\\0\(aq character.
+and adds a terminating null wide character (L\(aq\\0\(aq).
It stops reading wide characters after it has encountered and
stored a newline wide character.
It also stops when end of stream is reached.
.PP
For a nonlocking counterpart, see
.BR unlocked_stdio (3).
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
The
.BR fgetws ()
function, if successful, returns \fIws\fP.
If end of stream
was already reached or if an error occurred, it returns NULL.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
C99, POSIX.1-2001.
.SH NOTES
The behavior of
This function is unreliable,
because it does not permit to deal properly with
null wide characters that may be present in the input.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
.BR fgetwc (3),
.BR unlocked_stdio (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
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+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.