Re: Increase BUFSIZ to 8192

From: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 02:23:30 -0700
On May 14, 2015, at 1:06, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:

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> In message <20150514075316.GY37063_at_funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote this message on Thu, May 14, 2015 at 07:42 +0000:
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>>> In message <20150514072155.GT37063_at_funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:
>>> 
>>>> Since you apprently missed my original reply, I said that we shouldn't
>>>> abuse BUFSIZ for this work, and that it should be changed in mdXhl.c...
>>> 
>>> Say what ?
>>> 
>>> BUFSIZ is used entirely appropriately in MDXFileChunk():  For reading
>>> a file into an algorithm.
> 
>> In fact, posix-2008 references LINE_MAX because:
> 
> MDXFileChunk() does not read lines, it reads an entire file.

Being pedantic, technically it’s a portion of a file, which can be the whole thing, and it reads it in “sizeof(buffer)” chunks (of which buffer is “hardcoded" to BUFSIZ right now).
Cheers!

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