Does fgets() always terminate the char buffer with \0?

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Does fgets() always terminate the char buffer with \0 even if EOF is already reached? It looks like it does (it certainly does in the implementation presented in the ANSI K&R book), but I thought I would ask to be sure.

I guess this question applies to other similar functions such as gets().

EDIT: I know that \0 is appended during "normal" circumstances, my question is targeted at EOF or error conditions. For example:

FILE *fp;
char b[128];
/* ... */
if (feof(fp)) {
    /* is \0 appended after EACH of these calls? */
    fgets(b, 128, fp);
    fgets(b, 128, fp);
    fgets(b, 128, fp);
}
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