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[Chris Wright]

* Steve Grubb (sgrubb at redhat.com) wrote:
> On Sunday 08 May 2005 09:47, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Also, should audit_expand take a parameter to suggest how big to grow? For
> > example, the buffer is inited to 1024, but it need to put a PATH_MAX sized
> > filename into a message. In audit_vformat, if does 1 if statement and then
> > one increment. So now the buffer is 2048. That's still too small for a 4096
> > byte filename. Either the call to expand should be in a while loop, or it
> > should take a hint.
> 
> The patch I sent doesn't handle this. I'm not going to have time for this 
> today if someone else wants to take a shot at it. I think its best to send 
> either a param indicating the size of increase needed or total needed.

I had intended on augmenting audit_expand to take a len as a hint.  But
had planned that as cleanups after core changes are done.  I'll get to
that today, and push out all the little cleanup bits I have this
evening.

thanks,
-chris