Returning an error on STDIN EOF with io::read_line()

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I've been using the following function to read a single line of input in my program:

fn input() -> io::Result<String> {
    let mut string = String::new();
    let bytes_read = try!(io::stdin().read_line(&mut string));
    if bytes_read == 0 {
        return Err(io::Error::new(io::ErrorKind::Other,
                        "The line could not be read.");
    }
    string = string.trim_right_matches("\r\n").to_owned();
    string = string.trim_right_matches("\n").to_owned();
    return string;
}

If the number of bytes read is 0, then STDIN is closed. However, this function doesn't work: it allows a single line of empty input to be returned after STDIN has been closed. Only after that does the bytes_read error kick in.

Is it possible to modify this function to return an error right after STDIN is closed?

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That method is probably more suited for reading files, where the last line doesn't necessarily end with a line terminator. But I agree that for streaming, this is often not wanted.

I've implemented a read_line method in my netio crate that returns an error if no line terminator is found. If only works for CRLF though, because this is the standard in networking.