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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: preliminary FreeBSD support
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:19:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lji4lx9v.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cf0c4d610911171136h1713aa59w9cf9aa31f052ad0a@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:36:14 -0800, Alex Botero-Lowry <alex.boterolowry@gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw the announcement this morning, and was very excited, as I had been
> hoping sup would be turned into a library,
> since I like the concept more than the UI (I'd rather an emacs interface).

Hi Alex,

That's great! It's good to hear that there are like-minded people out
there. I hope that Notmuch will be useful for you.

> I did a preliminary compile which worked out fine, but
> sysconf(_SC_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) returns -1 on
> FreeBSD, so notmuch_config_open segfaulted.
> 
> Attached is a patch that supplies a default buffer size of 64 in cases where
> -1 is returned.

Thanks for the patch. As we discussed in IRC[*], we should probably
do the correct thing and check for ERANGE and loop as necessary (even if
sysconf returns a positive value). Example code here:

http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_328.txt

-Carl

[*] #notmuch on irc.freenode.net for those who didn't just guess that
already, (and I'll add that to the website soon).

      reply	other threads:[~2009-11-17 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-17 19:36 preliminary FreeBSD support Alex Botero-Lowry
2009-11-17 20:19 ` Carl Worth [this message]

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