On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 05:57:24PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Liyang HU on 1/13/2007 4:48 PM:
> > If xreadlink() assumed POSIX, it would allocate a fixed buffer of 256 bytes.
> Wrong. POSIX guarantees that you will have AT LEAST 256, [...]
You are absolutely right.
>
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 08:30:24AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> why should you expect sane behavior from tools that assume POSIX?
If xreadlink() assumed POSIX, it would allocate a fixed buffer of 256 bytes.
> By violating that rule of POSIX, the bug is squarely on your FS's shoulders,
I'm not even
Hallo,
I've been getting ``ls: memory exhausted'' messages, which I eventually
tracked down to xreadlink() attempting to allocate several hundred MB of
memory, since that's what lstat() returns[0] for the symlink's st_size.
In actuality, the length of the symlink were mostly under 128 bytes.
It s
