Hi Lennart, On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 10:35:14PM GMT, Lennart Jablonka wrote: > Quoth Alejandro Colomar: > > I think I found a bug in POSIX.1-2017 (and probably, previous ones too, > > but didn't check). [...] > > This example seems to contradict my understanding of what limits.h says. > > > > So, either limits.h should be explicit that the trailing null byte is > > also included in LINE_MAX, or the example is bogus and should be fixed. > > I guess it's the latter, although I wish it was the former, so we can > > avoid a +1 in the code. > > > > In any case, could you please forward this to the Austin group? > > Good find. You aren’t the first one to find it: :-) > https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=182 discusses that example a little. > The desired action written there appears verbatim (bar formatting) in the > 4.1 draft of POSIX.1-202x. Could you please paste that part of the draft? It's quite inaccessible to me. And since the info is already public in the ticket, I guess it's not a violation of anything. Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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