Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 21:18:57 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lam silently spills overly long lines Message-ID: <20150519111857.GD78998@server.rulingia.com> In-Reply-To: <5558752E.8030404@erdgeist.org> References: <5558752E.8030404@erdgeist.org>
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--cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2015-May-17 13:02:06 +0200, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> wrote: >when working on a set of files quite large files I noticed that lam(1) >would suddenly start combining lines that clearly don't belong together. > >I tracked it down to a single overly long line (with overly meaning > >BUFSIZ from stdio.h) in one of the files and noticed that in I think a lot of Unix utilities assume that input lines will not exceed BUFSIZ and silently split longer lines. This is usually "good enough" so fixing it often isn't a high priority. >I also offer to write the patch. That would be wonderful. If you do so, please attach it to a bugzilla PR (and maybe copy the PR number into this thread). --=20 Peter Jeremy --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVWxwhXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFRUIyOTg2QzMwNjcxRTc0RTY1QzIyN0Ux NkE1OTdBMEU0QTIwQjM0AAoJEBall6Dkogs01r8P/2QV8TYzVGhmfHghY38iCC9D xOeVZDGi2tGv69N65dGDQhWPvfb0LKWbCmrMcCz0um76A5FTmsAPKXELvScv9zr3 NHf4RxHEOgxXZ0y6eyFrb2PMk5cHk7QLYQOM/152RI+r3OkXXTLNBGI5lazEQ0tE sJgDwxFikQG5zeHErOgri3+YqoFyI4+Iqxyi6Xqct7St4fpVvdlNdSqrLsnQ0rpv AcM6lc+CAJt+USQrsjvQur3LOM3yavWCARyy85zvWjIgSDjSq/UxK0WFPhcg2k4s HYGHzHaw24/peJzow1ordIJGhYptR5+ICZWlvaWwH1rkTZuAHVu/FZoeejRe/QgW R8FG3SI20hS+fKIDfstC1j5usF1Eb5s0FDfAvoefMlREWKPpV7g9jz7mEhuJG9v8 boSwr+jYHIPRHNMTI4S/HqCJtm7BN2Iu403g8FoIitnHArV2Qe8C50MGYdgUJDt2 NSZVgHddAKpIvxWidLNni+GLSc3LJhTYfP8G5kNxjEms1D5scCRNjIy+K5NwJKJV QnLdIHD9MmIn3gyWUGpNIQzqv5iRolwnqGLssjXZYvbJpqvWDNtSBE2Loce1GFbg V8KAStcMHqLj0amrCc1vXT+s7f6yJJjcWnuYAzLJrY5+rPyA8/FHFZw3K9yiF9gq 8K/Q9g13mEEXw45Qpp60 =rKlN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--
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