Re: gnutls-cli: handle binary data from stdin

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:31, address@hidden 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.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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