On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Dave Reisner
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 05:44:43PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
Define a single BUFFER_SIZE constant in util.h and use it everywhere. This also prepares us for libarchive 3.0, where the ARCHIVE_DEFAULT_BYTES_PER_BLOCK constant has been taken out to the woodshed.
Any particular reason we're not using BUFSIZ out of stdio.h if its available?
1. It is documented only as "this is the size the functions in stdio.h use", not necessarily as "this is the buffer size user space applications should use". 2. Finding that documentation is hard. [1] 3. Any particular reason to? At least on my system it is 8192, and I guess I have no idea if that varies across systems. So yeah, I don't know. I suppose I could be convinced, and we could just ifdef a hardcoded value in there if BUFSIZ wasn't defined, but I also don't know that if that value has any sort of real magic to it. -Dan [1] The best I could find was http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/glibc/libc_226.html, and even that is glibc specific. Sometimes people also use BUFSIZ as the allocation size of buffers used for related purposes, such as strings used to receive a line of input with fgets (see section 12.8 Character Input). There is no particular reason to use BUFSIZ for this instead of any other integer, except that it might lead to doing I/O in chunks of an efficient size.