On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > - IOW, awk (both gawk and mawk) loses everything past the first 4Kb.
> > And yes, it's a real-world example (there was more than $5 and it was
> > followed by sed(1), but that doesn't affect the result - lost lines).
>
> Does this break fopen/fscanf as well then? There are programs which use
> fscanf to read this info.
I suspect that unless you do something stupid with setvbuf() you should be
OK - glibc uses sufficiently large buffers for stdio and doesn't try to
cram as much as possible into them (that's what kills awk - it ends up
doing read(2) again and agian trying to fill the buffer and eventually
tail of the buffer becomes too small; then it gets 0 from read(2) and
decides that it was an EOF).
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