On May 14, 2015, at 1:06, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > -------- > 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: >>> -------- >>> 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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