From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: source@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: mdocml: Compatibility support fgetln() on Linux.
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:29:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111213122953.GB3847@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201112131126.pBDBQDje017087@krisdoz.my.domain>
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:26:13AM -0500, kristaps@mdocml.bsd.lv wrote:
> Compatibility support fgetln() on Linux. This uses the BSD-licensed
> implementation from NetBSD tnftpd, Christos Zoulas (copyright message
> retained in the compat_fgetln.c file). Patch verified by schwarze@. He
> notes that you'll need -pthread for -static binaries (due to libdb), so
> I've noted that -static should really only be used for BSD UNIX.
I think the better idea would be for OpenBSD to provide getline and go
with a POSIX function. One of the reasons is that getline() makes the
buffer handling more explicit, which is a good thing here, since the
naive fallback implementation can/does leak memory.
Joerg
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2011-12-13 11:26 kristaps
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