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Two places in passt need to read files line by line (one parsing
resolv.conf, the other parsing /proc/net/*. They can't use fgets()
because in glibc that can allocate memory. Instead they use an
implementation line_read() in util.c. This has some problems:
* It has two completely separate modes of operation, one buffering
and one not, the relation between these and how they're activated
is subtle and confusing
* At least in non-buffered mode, it will mishandle an empty line,
folding them onto the start of the next non-empty line
* In non-buffered mode it will use lseek() which prevents using this
on non-regular files (we don't need that at present, but it's a
surprising limitation)
* It has a lot of difficult to read pointer mangling
Add a new cleaner implementation of allocation-free line-by-line
reading in lineread.c. This one always buffers, using a state
structure to keep track of what we need. This is larger than I'd
like, but it turns out handling all the edge cases of line-by-line
reading in C is surprisingly hard.
This just adds the code, subsequent patches will change the existing
users of line_read() to the new implementation.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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