Safer how?

I don't mind too much, but you will also need to initialize size to 0
(it is currently uninitialized) before calling getline().





On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 04:35:39PM -0400, Bryan Steele wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 09:27:47PM +0100, Nicholas Marriott wrote:
> > 
> > What is the point of doing this? fgetln works fine.
> > 
> 
> There's been other examples of commits replacing fgetln for getline,
> while portability isn't a major concern, it's been suggested that
> getline may be safer.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=147231601627483&w=2
> 
> No worries if you want to keep it.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 02:47:25PM -0400, Bryan Steele wrote:
> > > Seems to work, does this look right?
> > > 
> > > -Bryan.
> > > 
> > > Index: magic-load.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/file/magic-load.c,v
> > > retrieving revision 1.25
> > > diff -u -p -r1.25 magic-load.c
> > > --- magic-load.c  1 Jul 2017 14:34:29 -0000       1.25
> > > +++ magic-load.c  1 Jul 2017 18:44:42 -0000
> > > @@ -1071,6 +1071,7 @@ magic_load(FILE *f, const char *path, in
> > >   struct magic_line       *ml = NULL, *parent, *parent0;
> > >   char                    *line, *tmp;
> > >   size_t                   size;
> > > + ssize_t                  slen;
> > >   u_int                    at, level, n, i;
> > >  
> > >   m = xcalloc(1, sizeof *m);
> > > @@ -1084,15 +1085,11 @@ magic_load(FILE *f, const char *path, in
> > >  
> > >   at = 0;
> > >   tmp = NULL;
> > > - while ((line = fgetln(f, &size))) {
> > > -         if (line[size - 1] == '\n')
> > > -                 line[size - 1] = '\0';
> > > -         else {
> > > -                 tmp = xmalloc(size + 1);
> > > -                 memcpy(tmp, line, size);
> > > -                 tmp[size] = '\0';
> > > -                 line = tmp;
> > > -         }
> > > + while ((slen = getline(&tmp, &size, f)) != -1) {
> > > +         line = tmp;
> > > +         if (line[slen - 1] == '\n')
> > > +                 line[slen - 1] = '\0';
> > > +
> > >           at++;
> > >  
> > >           while (isspace((u_char)*line))
> > 

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