Re: Small variable buffer?

[Eric Dorland]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 15:11 +0200, Mark Burgess wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 12:39 -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > Dorland
> 
> You're right - this is an arbitrary decision, taken early on. The
> relevant sizes are
> 
> CF_MAXVARSIZE     1024
> CF_BUFSIZE      > CF_MAXVARSIZE
> CF_EXPANDSIZE   > CF_BUFSIZE
> 
> 
> 
> If you want to increase these sizes in cf.defs.h then make sure that you
> increase them all. A variable can be a part of a buffer, so if you
> expand MAXVARSIZE into a CF_BUFSIZE, there needs to be room for it...

Is there a good reason for it to still be so small? With list variables
especially you run into the limit quickly. With machines these days,
doubling or quadrupling this shouldn't make a significant impact on
memory usage. Dynamically sized variables would be best, but that's
probably cfengine 3 territory. 


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