At Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:08:36 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Weirdness in comm(1)
>
> I completely disagree.
I'm not at all comfortable with the introduction of EOVERFLOW to fgetln(3).
The ability to handle lines longer than INT_MAX is much more academic.
The fact that it does it badly, is, well, not its fault, since as you say:
> At some point the libc ABI should be fixed to not
> use an internal buffer length of type int,
Indeed. That's the real bug. And here we'll get stuck unless a wide
enough audience can agree that we need to be able to regularly make
fixes such as this in libc.
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Greg A. Woods
Planix, Inc.
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