-/* Read a line from stdin, without any line-terminator character. The
- * return value is a newly allocated string. The caller should free()
- * the string when finished with it.
- *
- * This function returns NULL if EOF is encountered before any
- * characters are input (otherwise it returns those characters).
- */
-char *
-read_line (void)
-{
- char *result = NULL;
- GError *error = NULL;
- GIOStatus g_io_status;
- gsize length;
-
- GIOChannel *channel = g_io_channel_unix_new (fileno (stdin));
-
- g_io_status = g_io_channel_read_line (channel, &result,
- &length, NULL, &error);
-
- if (g_io_status == EOF)
- goto DONE;
-
- if (g_io_status != G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL) {
- fprintf(stderr, "Read error: %s\n", error->message);
- exit (1);
- }
-
- if (length && result[length - 1] == '\n')
- result[length - 1] = '\0';
-
- DONE:
- g_io_channel_unref (channel);
- return result;
-}
-