Re: [PATCH 1/3] pretty: support "mboxrd" output format

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On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My only minor reservation is that it your concise version is still
> subtle with regard to not taking 'linelen' into account. At first
> glance, it looks like a bug that it doesn't consider the logical
> end-of-line, and someone reading the code has to put in extra effort
> to convince himself that the code works as intended.
>
> For that reason, I have a bit of a preference for a version of
> is_mboxrd_from() which does take 'linelen' into account explicitly.

That certainly is true. You could check that the end result did not consume
more than linelen after the single-liner computes its result, but I am not sure
under what condition that check would trigger. Even though we may hold the
entire e-mail file without NUL-terminating each line, we have a NUL-termination
at the end of the file, no?
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