Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06 2019 14:02:16 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > Lauri Tirkkonen wrote:
> > > Hi, another simple diff converting fgetln usage to getline.
> > > 
> > > I also considered converting grep_fgetln to grep_getline, but that would
> > > mean that for FILE_MMAP we'd have to copy the string. So this diff keeps
> > > the grep_fgetln interface as is, but avoids using fgetln from libc (and
> > > adds error handling for FILE_STDIO).
> > 
> > this looks good and seems to work. thanks.
> 
> actually, it doesn't work :) the added error handling catches that
> directory fd's are being passed into grep_fgetln, causing an error exit
> with grep -r (or just grep foo /etc/*). I'm working on a second diff to
> refactor the file handling a bit.

oh, interesting. that's sloppy. can you please fix that first, separately?

(wrt getline, theo raised some concern that getline copies more data than
fgetln does. we care quite a bit about grep performance, so we need to
consider that some more.)

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