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Re: [Bug-gnulib] getline & getline_safe


From: Derek Robert Price
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnulib] getline & getline_safe
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:38:44 -0400
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Paul Eggert wrote:

Derek Robert Price <address@hidden> writes:

Don't most modern operating systems allow ulimit to limit process size?

Yes, but that's a crude weapon, whereas getline_safe() is aimed just
at this particular problem.

Personally, I don't like functions whose name ends in "_safe".
Nothing is 100% safe.  It's better to end their name in "_safer".
Or better yet, why not call it "getnline" as per the original bug report:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00326.html>


getnline() is fine with me.

If getline_safe() _is_ necessary, is there interest in importing it
into GNULIB (it really just wraps a call to getdelim2())?

I'd have interest, though I don't see how you can just wrap a call to
getdelim2.  Don't you also need to modify getdelim2's signature?

Oops. Yes. I read too quickly and assumed that getdelim2() was just the old getstr() in ccvs/lib/getline.c with a new name.

So a new getndelim() function would be needed for wrapping or just the getnline() function.

Derek

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