On Dec 18, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-12-18 11:34-0800 David MacMahon wrote:
>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> See their example 1d where they check for truncation. Instead of
> taking an error return at that point as they did in their sample code
> the user could instead
On 2010-12-18 11:34-0800 David MacMahon wrote:
> Hi, Alan,
>
> On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>> Another model for plgnver, plgndev, and plgnfnam is one similar to
>> strlcpy that is discussed by Todd C. Miller and Theo de Raadt at
>> http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlc
On 2010-12-18 20:15+0100 Werner Smekal wrote:
>> I made an attempt to run comprehensive_test.sh on my Windows system,
>> via win-bash, but it requires basic external programs like dirname and
>> basename that are not present on the average Windows machine. Using
>> msys instead might be an option,
Here are the Lua diff results I am getting on the MinGW/MSYS/wine
32-bit platform (on my 64-bit hardware):
lua
Missing examples: 33
Differing postscript output : 04 18 19 26
Missing stdout :
Differing stdout:
These results were obtained from comp
Hi, Alan,
On Dec 18, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Another model for plgnver, plgndev, and plgnfnam is one similar to
> strlcpy that is discussed by Todd C. Miller and Theo de Raadt at
> http://www.gratisoft.us/todd/papers/strlcpy.html. That is a most
> interesting paper to read. I
I should have also said that PLplot users on the Windows platform can
find directions for installing a Windows version of Tcl at
http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Install_Tcl
which is linked from
http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki/index.php?title=Specifics_for_various_platfor
Hi Andrew (with one question for Dave):
Thanks for contributing to this discussion.
On 2010-12-18 13:59- Andrew Ross wrote:
> I think passing a buffer size is the safest way to go. If you wanted a
> constant buffer length, then it should be PATH_MAX to ensure any path
> will fit, but this st
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:53:44AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-12-16 21:15-0800 David MacMahon wrote:
>
> > Hi, Alan,
> >
> > On Dec 16, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> >
> >> Here is what I propose instead of this temporary measure. We go with
> >> a backward-incompatible API cha
Here are the Python results I am getting on the MinGW/MSYS/wine 32-bit
platform (on my 64-bit hardware):
python
Missing examples:
Differing postscript output : 03 04 05 06 08 09 11 12 14a 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 25 26 29 33
Missing stdout :
Differing stdou
