Re: [9fans] dns vs. textrr

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>]

On Thu Jan 19 19:13:14 EST 2012, lyndon@orthanc.ca wrote:
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> On 2012-01-19, at 3:56 PM, erik quanstrom wrote:
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> > it's probablly the best option,
> > if the goal is to rehabilitate Brdline().  i'm wondering if it shouldn't
> > just be considered depricated.
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> If you don't think of Brdline() as a 'C char *' construct, it's a useful vessel to escape from one of the most evil parts of parsing text.  I won't begin to recount the pain I've endured dealing with text protocol parsers that didn't get the \r\n split across the buffer boundary right.
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> If you're claiming to read a line, just do it.  I don't care if you have to buy dictionaries to hold the words, and front-end loaders from which to fill them!
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> Certainly some smarts can be added to deal with inflated buffers when they are no longer needed. But for now, dying from malloc(HUGE) isn't much worse than the current behaviour.

depricated, as in use Brdstr(2) instead which does its own dynamic allocation.

- erik