Re: svn commit: r17078 - in trunk/subversion: mod_authz_svn

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Log:
> > Follow up to r17077: Use sizeof() instead of a hardcoded buffer length.
>
> Why are we using fixed-sized buffers at all?
>
> (I realize this seems to date to a pre-existing svn_strerror(), but it
> seems like a botch which should be corrected, not propagated to a new
> interface.)

I think we're doing it to avoid allocating memory, the assumption
being that running out of memory might have been the ultimate cause of
whatever error we're handling. At any rate, this was why I chose to
propagate the API rather than "fix" it. See the note in the docstring
of svn_err_best_message().

(I'm not wedded to this decision, just explaining it...)

-Karl

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Received on Thu Nov 3 17:10:48 2005