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Re: Weirdness in comm(1)



On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:01:55PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I think whomever munged fgetstr(3) to be based on getdelim(3) in
> -current may have broken it BADLY (likely, actually; re-introducing
> bogus line length limits, sigh) -- they also forgot to update the manual
> page (for both a new error and for its references).

I completely disagree. At some point the libc ABI should be fixed to not
use an internal buffer length of type int, but otherwise it simply
doesn't matter.

Joerg


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