Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] use HOST_NAME_MAX to size buffers for gethostname(2)

> I think I meant to write "big pidfiles" there.
>
> With xsize_t() gc would die when seeing a pidfile whose size doesn't fit into
> size_t.  The version I sent just ignores such files.  However, it would choke
> on slightly smaller files that happen to not fit into memory.  And no
> reasonable pidfile can be big enough to trigger any of that, so dying on
> conversion error wouldn't really be a problem.  Is that what you meant?  It
> makes sense, in any case.