In local.freebsd.hackers you write:
>:
>:So, if I send problem report with my patches, I should inherit usage of
>:staticaly allocated buffers.
>:Am I right?
>:
>:milunovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>:> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
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>:> > I patched some library files and noted that some functions, which parse
>:some
>:> > configuration files, use staticaly allocated buffers. Sizes of such
>:> > staticaly allocated buffers are 8k, 10k and so on. These buffers are
>:used to
>:> > hold one line from parsed file. Usually it is enough for one line, but
>:...
> Yes. System libraries traditionally use statically allocated buffers
> because, even now, there is no dynamic equivalent for fgets(). The
> closest you can get is to mmap() the file and extract the lines that
> way.
How about fgetln(3)?
/Mikko
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Mikko Työläjä[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RSA Security
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