Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:19:56 -0500 (EST)
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To: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
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       Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [TTY] 2 points seems strange to me.
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:
> Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> 
>> Looking at TTY code, I noticed a weird test done in "opost_bock"
>> located in n_tty.c file. I don't understand why the following test is
>> done at the start of the function:
>> if (nr > sizeof(buf))
>>        nr = sizeof(buf);
>> Actually it limits the size of processing blocks to 4 bytes and I can't
>> find a reason why.
> 
> No, it limits the size to 80 bytes,
> which is the size of buf.
> 
> sizeof returns the size of the char array buf[80]
> (standard C)
>

Huh?? "buf" is a pointer. On this system pointers are 4-bytes
in length. What "standard C" are you using? Frank found a bug.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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