From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] dns vs. textrr
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:56:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44c2a0c73c586878a569ee074cdd084a@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB9FA4E6-D6CC-401D-90A2-852E26FBBAD0@orthanc.ca>
On Thu Jan 19 18:33:42 EST 2012, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
>
> On 2012-01-19, at 2:12 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
>
> > that seems a bit ... goofy. it would seem better for
> > bio to do this internally? surely there isn't code that
> > relies on this behavior?
>
> Or maybe realloc() a larger buffer and try to carry on? There's no guarantee of buffer pointer consistency across B* calls, is there? Default to 8K (or whatever), and place an adjustable cap of, say, 128K, on the dynamic bsize.
sizing the buffer has been considered (putting in a cap puts the
caller in the same position as before). it's probablly the best option,
if the goal is to rehabilitate Brdline(). i'm wondering if it shouldn't
just be considered depricated.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-19 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-19 16:01 erik quanstrom
2012-01-19 17:00 ` Jeff Sickel
2012-01-19 17:17 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-19 22:12 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-19 23:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-01-19 23:56 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-01-20 0:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-01-20 0:14 ` erik quanstrom
2012-01-20 0:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-01-20 6:31 ` Jeff Sickel
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