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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFA: close-on-exec internal file descriptors
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1L90Zp-0002hZ-Kr@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081206165126.GA9117@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel 	Jacobowitz on Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:51:26 -0500)

> Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:51:26 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:58:03AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> > Eli> Can we do something more safe than this arbitrary [20] limitation?
> > 
> > I don't think there is any point, because the mode argument to fopen
> > is never longer than 4 characters or so.  However, if you really want
> > this, I will change it to a malloc.
> 
> I find that alloca is good for these situations.

`alloca' is fine with me.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-06 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-06  0:39 Tom Tromey
2008-12-06  8:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-06 15:58   ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-06 16:52     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-06 17:05       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-12-06 16:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-12-06 15:26 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-06 15:59   ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-06 15:42 ` Mark Kettenis
2008-12-06 22:06   ` Tom Tromey
2008-12-07 19:26     ` Mark Kettenis

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