From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 04:18:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] use HOST_NAME_MAX to size buffers for gethostname(2)
Message-ID: <62e3185b-3cbb-f0b4-47be-f4093bfb9a6a@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <0882e8f6-f9e2-20c2-4e94-3fa8a50097c9@web.de>


> 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.

In short: Yes.

>
> Thanks,
> René