On 03/06/2015 06:08 AM, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > On 03/05/2015 05:07 PM, Michael Haggerty wrote: >> One likely reason for fdopen() to fail is the lack of memory for >> allocating a FILE structure. When that happens, try freeing some >> memory and calling fdopen() again in the hope that it will work the >> second time. >> >> This change was suggested by Jonathan Nieder [1] >> >> In the first patch it is unsatisfying that try_to_free_routine() is >> called with a magic number (1000) rather than sizeof(FILE). But the C >> standard doesn't guarantee that FILE is a complete type, so I can't >> think of a better approach. Suggestions, anybody? > > it's not the sizeof(FILE) which is critical, it is the size of the buffer > associated with a FILE > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stdio.h.html > > BUFSIZ may be your friend, and if it is not defined, 4096 may be a > useful default. Good point. If this patch series is not dropped as being useless, I will make this change. Michael -- Michael Haggerty mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html