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From: rankin@EQL.Caltech.EDU (Pat Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: C RTL bug (read() limitation)
Message-ID: <870615135859.006@EQL.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 17:03:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 17:03:28 1987
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>   it doesn't seem like much of a "bug" to me to have the RTL only read()
>   64K bytes at a time. 'taint a bug, 'tis a feature.  you wouldn't
>   want RMS to have a tight for loop to move data around when it can
>   be done with one instruction... 
    
RMS shouldn't loop but read() could.  strlen() and strcpy() accept
arbitrarily large input strings by performing internal loops that
handle up to 65535 bytes at a time.