From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:55:40 -0500
Date: 2002-02-27T22:55:40-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5k8v8$dg8$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C7C7E2D.6090602@mail.com
I believe this is what David is saying. Normally when you write code to
accept arbitrarily large input, you write it so that it's only constraint is
memory.
-CRM
"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:3C7C7E2D.6090602@mail.com...
> David Starner wrote:
> > 1500 was meant as an arbitrarily large value.
>
> No arbitrary value is large enough. You *must* provide
> for input buffer size limited only by memory constraints,
> or you will cause some innocent user needless grief.
>
> As I said before, my troublesome case was a .newsrc file,
> plain text, where one line was several hundred thousand
> characters long. Fortunately, I was using tools which
> handled it with aplomb.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-28 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-21 8:59 functions, packages & characters Christoph Grein
2002-02-21 18:07 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 18:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-21 23:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-22 0:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22 1:12 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22 2:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-22 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-23 1:10 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-25 15:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 15:58 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-25 19:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-25 20:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 3:30 ` David Starner
2002-02-26 15:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-26 21:43 ` David Starner
2002-02-27 6:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-28 3:55 ` Chad R. Meiners [this message]
2002-02-28 18:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-02 3:25 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-03 8:22 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-03 17:50 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-01 2:08 ` David Starner
2002-03-05 14:36 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 7:42 ` tmoran
2002-02-22 15:34 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22 2:47 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-22 13:41 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-23 1:08 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-23 2:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-22 16:27 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-21 23:49 ` unversedangel
2002-02-21 22:48 ` unversedangel
2002-02-21 23:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-22 14:11 ` Marin David Condic
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2002-02-21 0:16 Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 0:37 ` tmoran
2002-02-21 1:13 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 2:53 ` tmoran
2002-02-21 8:25 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 13:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-22 0:22 ` tmoran
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