David Watson <bai...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: > I just fear that the loop is "endless". Imagine the worst case: confstr() > returns a counter (n, n+1, n+2, ...). In 64 bits, it can be long.
The returned length is supposed to be determined by the length of the variable, not the length of the buffer passed by the caller, so I don't see why the OS would have a bug like that, and it would probably be exposed by the test suite anyway (there's currently a simple test using CS_PATH). > I would prefer to see a condition to stop after 2 steps. It should maybe stop > when an error at the 3rd step. That is, raise an exception? Yeah, possibly, but I think it's better to just believe what the OS tells you rather than have an exception that's only raised once in a blue moon for something that may just be a low-probability event, and not an error. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9579> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
