Re: getline & getline_safe

Derek Robert Price <[email protected]> writes:

> Don't most modern operating systems allow ulimit to limit process size?

Yes, but that's a crude weapon, whereas getline_safe() is aimed just
at this particular problem.

Personally, I don't like functions whose name ends in "_safe".
Nothing is 100% safe.  It's better to end their name in "_safer".
Or better yet, why not call it "getnline" as per the original bug report:
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00326.html>

> If getline_safe() _is_ necessary, is there interest in importing it
> into GNULIB (it really just wraps a call to getdelim2())?

I'd have interest, though I don't see how you can just wrap a call to
getdelim2.  Don't you also need to modify getdelim2's signature?