Re: [gpsd-dev] ✘regress-driver broken

[Fred Wright]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, Gary E. Miller wrote:

> Yo Fred!
>
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:22:09 -0700
> "Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Which brings up another issue, where does the 4K limit come from?
>
> I found it.  I increased the read max to 8192 from 4096.  That did not
> seem to break anything.
>
> Thanks for getting me to that problem.
>
> Change pushed.

The 4K is just an arbitrary reasonable buffer size.   There's no need for
it to contain a complete line when the code works correctly.  The buffer
that's used to return the data to the caller is dynamic and independent of
the read buffer size.

Fred Wright