Re: Maximum length input lines

2000-08-19 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PS> At 08:50 PM 8/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I do believe thbis is one of the reasons sysread is there > >> > >> perldoc -f sysread > > PS> Au contraire; sysread reads

Re: Maximum length input lines

2000-08-19 Thread skud
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: >At first I thought this was a -io item, but then I realized the -io part is >easy; it's the -language part I need to get right :-) Um. The -io sublist is called -language-io for a reason -- it's for language discussions related to IO.

Re: Maximum length input lines

2000-08-19 Thread belg4mit
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Re: Maximum length input lines

2000-08-19 Thread Uri Guttman
> "PS" == Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS> At 08:50 PM 8/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I do believe thbis is one of the reasons sysread is there >> >> perldoc -f sysread PS> Au contraire; sysread reads exactly the number of characters PS> requested; what I

Re: Maximum length input lines

2000-08-19 Thread Peter Scott
At 08:50 PM 8/19/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I do believe thbis is one of the reasons sysread is there > >perldoc -f sysread Au contraire; sysread reads exactly the number of characters requested; what I want is a way for programs that do all over the place to be protected if someone t

Maximum length input lines

2000-08-19 Thread Peter Scott
At first I thought this was a -io item, but then I realized the -io part is easy; it's the -language part I need to get right :-) I have often thought that there should be a way to say that a readline() should limit the length of line it could return, or in circumstances where the input source