Re: source(builtin) and read(2)

[Andreas Schwab]

Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Um. In fact, it is also an *ERROR* (i.e. read() will fail outright with -
> IIRC - EINVAL) to try to read more than SSIZE_MAX bytes at once. Many, but
> not all, systems define SSIZE_MAX to be a very large value, but it may be
> as small as 32k. I guess I've never tried to source an autoconf configure
> script on such a system.

If your ssize_t is smaller than 32 bits you'll have to worry about more
things than that.

Andreas.

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