On 2012-01-19, at 2:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:

> that seems a bit ... goofy. it would seem better for
> bio to do this internally?  surely there isn't code that
> relies on this behavior?

Or maybe realloc() a larger buffer and try to carry on?  There's no guarantee 
of buffer pointer consistency across B* calls, is there?  Default to 8K (or 
whatever), and place an adjustable cap of, say, 128K, on the dynamic bsize.

Given some XML stanzas I've seen lately, elastic buffers have a lot of appeal 
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