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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2016-08-02 11:09:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2016-08-02 11:09:46 +0000 |
| commit | 42e4191ce53a7d77deef2b37ea6b3800cf463172 (patch) | |
| tree | 64ae94cf9e4cf6e08ebaadf8903a832a6658d9ac /TODO | |
| parent | 63629b45891523da62daada0d2e7799efa2a897d (diff) | |
| download | mandoc-42e4191ce53a7d77deef2b37ea6b3800cf463172.tar.gz | |
POSIX allows PATH_MAX to not be defined, meaning "unlimited".
Found by Aaron M. Ucko <amu at alum dot mit dot edu> on the GNU Hurd,
via Bdale Garbee, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624
Also add EFTYPE at two places where it was forgotten.
Diffstat (limited to 'TODO')
| -rw-r--r-- | TODO | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -620,6 +620,13 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are * structural issues ************************************************************************ +- POSIX says in the documentation of sysconf(3) that PATH_MAX + is allowed to be so large that it is a bad idea to use it + for sizing static buffers. So use dynamic buffers throughout. + See the file test-PATH_MAX.c for details. + Found by Aaron M. Ucko in the GNU Hurd via Bdale Garbee, + https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624 + - We use the input line number at several places to distinguish same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage. |