Mercurial > hg > octave-kai > gnulib-hg
changeset 3465:e80738a5b62b
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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> |
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date | Tue, 04 Sep 2001 20:22:47 +0000 |
parents | 266d7c495179 |
children | 45d73183ee54 |
files | lib/ChangeLog |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lib/ChangeLog +++ b/lib/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,16 @@ +2001-09-04 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> + + * xreadlink.c (xreadlink): Omit size_t* arg. All uses changed. + Use ssize_t, not int, to store result of readlink. + Check for ssize_t overflow as well as size_t overflow, + as POSIX says the result of readlink is implementation-defined + when ssize_t overflows. + Remove unnecessary cast to char*. + Use free+malloc instead of realloc, as the storage doesn't need + to be preserved and it's clearer and can be more efficient that way. + (SIZE_MAX, SSIZE_MAX): New macros, if <limits.h> doesn't declare. + * xreadlink.h (xreadlink): Update prototype. + 2001-09-03 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> * exclude.c (fnmatch_no_wildcards): Fix confusion between