Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What can we do in gnulib?
>
> (a) Have 2 xreadlink like functions. Since the one without prior stat is more
> natural, I would propose to rename the coreutils one, with the 'size'
> argument, to 'xreadlink_after_stat'.
>
> Or
>
> (b) Merge the two functions into one. For example, when the function is called
> with size = (size_t)(-1), let it mean "don't know" - and in this case,
> let the function use a stack allocated buffer and memcpy().
>
> What do you think?
I like (a), but would prefer a different name, e.g.,
xreadlink_with_hint
xreadlink_with_size
xreadlink_size_hint
xreadlink_length_hint
because the hint needn't come from stat/st_size,
or even just
xreadlink_hint
or, shortest of all ("2", for two parameters),
xreadlink2
So far, I prefer xreadlink2.
