On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead of doing this:
>
> if (len < sizeof(buf))
> buf[len] = '\0';
>
> ...I would suggest making the size of the buffer one greater than the
> size of the read(), and then always nul-terminating the buffer. It
> seems to me that would make the code easier to reason about.
How about the attached then? This way we still detect the same way any
invalid values:
- if ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) < 0)
+ if ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1)) < 0)
Regards,
--
Michael
diff --git a/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c b/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c
index d6b1692..2f9f2b4 100644
--- a/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c
+++ b/contrib/pg_standby/pg_standby.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ CheckForExternalTrigger(void)
return;
}
- if ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) < 0)
+ if ((len = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1)) < 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "WARNING: could not read \"%s\": %s\n",
triggerPath, strerror(errno));
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