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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:51:23 -0500
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.ORG>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r204803 - head/usr.bin/uniq
Message-ID:  <20100308195123.GA10624@zim.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20100307201027.GA51623@nagual.pp.ru>
References:  <201003061921.o26JLv36014114@svn.freebsd.org> <20100307104626.GA9015@a91-153-117-195.elisa-laajakaista.fi> <20100308015926.O11669@delplex.bde.org> <20100307183139.GA50243@nagual.pp.ru> <20100307201027.GA51623@nagual.pp.ru>

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On Sun, Mar 07, 2010, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:31:39PM +0300, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> > It is right idea. I'll use sysconf(__SC_LINE_MAX) there.
> > But currently it does the same (sysconf.c):
> >         case _SC_LINE_MAX:
> >                 return (LINE_MAX);
> ...
> > To add more:
> > NetBSD uniq grows (contrary, NetBSD comm silently discarding everything 
> > afterwards).
> > OpenBSD uniq just use fgets with 8192.
> > GNU uniq grows.
> 
> After thinking a bit more I consider to reimplement unlimited lines here 
> instead because enforcing POSIX limit was not the main goal of my commit 
> (it was to remove getwc() which is evil). Someone may deal with the limit 
> on his own way afterwards.

Good.  I think it's better for usability if we avoid artificial
limits like this.

You can actually just call getline() rather than reinventing the
wheel.  I've had a wide character version of getline() ready to
commit for some time (I just need to find the time to do it), so
you won't need to call mbstowcs() as a separate step.



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