gnutls-cli: handle binary data from stdin
Simon Josefsson
simon at josefsson.org
Wed Jan 27 15:49:18 CET 2010
Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:31, simon at josefsson.org said:
>
>> text-oriented assumptions in the code. However I believe we should use
>> getline instead of fgets/read to avoid the fixed size buffer. It should
>> handle binary data transparent.
>
> But it will resize the buffer as needed and thus it can easily eat up
> all RAM available to the process and other code will cease to work. In
> particular on small devices this is a problem.
Good point. I'll use the original patch.
/Simon
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