On 29 February 2024 23:28:44 CET, Jerry D <jvdelis...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2/29/24 12:56 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:28:19AM -0800, Jerry D wrote: >>> On 2/29/24 10:13 AM, Steve Kargl wrote: >>>> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 09:36:43AM -0800, Jerry D wrote: >>>>> On 2/29/24 1:47 AM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> And, just for my own education, the length limitation of iomsg to 255 >>>>>> chars is not backed by the standard AFAICS, right? It's just our >>>>>> STRERR_MAXSZ? >>>>> >>>>> Yes, its what we have had for a long lone time. Once you throw an error >>>>> things get very processor dependent. I found MSGLEN set to 100 and >>>>> IOMSG_len >>>>> to 256. Nothing magic about it.
It was system dependent. In the lib, here, it was probed at runtime, cross used IOV_MAX on lunix per default, in the non error case looped. >PS I wish my mail client would not wrap text on me, working on that issue. try :paste Or set tw=0, although 80 makes sense for me, or 72 in mail (if you are able to clip)
