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Re: 1.10 API review - svn_io_stdin_readline()

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:29:42 +0100

On 16.01.2018 03:42, Nathan Hartman wrote:
>> On Jan 15, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> About this new-for-1.10 API:
>> [[[
>> /** Reads a string from stdin until a newline or EOF is found
>> *
>> * @since New in 1.10.
>> */
>> svn_error_t *
>> svn_io_stdin_readline(const char **result,
>> apr_pool_t *result_pool,
>> apr_pool_t *scratch_pool);
>> ]]]
>>
>> Compare with svn_stream_readline() and svn_io_file_readline():
>> * they read into a svn_stringbuf_t;
>> * they have EOL and EOF params;
>> * svn_io_file_readline() has max_len param;
>>
>> It seems to me it would be better to make this new function more similar to them.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> - Julian
> I didn't look at the context but it looks like, at a bare minimum, this function needs a size of result param to avoid overrunning a buffer.

No, that's not a problem because the function allocates the buffer and
returns a pointer to it.

-- Brane
Received on 2018-01-16 07:29:47 CET

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