Re: patch(1) max line length

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

Mouse wrote in
 <202407122106.RAA17452%Stone.Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>:
 |>>> I note the specification does not forbid the handling of lines
 |>>> longer than LINE_MAX characters.
 |>> No, it certainly does not do that.
 |
 |Yeah; like a lot of examples, recovery from error cases is allowed to
 |be "handle it as if the limit weren't there".
 |
 |> It is your fault to think normal rules apply to JSON, for sure.
 |
 |Well, I would say, rather, that it the mistake lies in expecting normal
 |text tools to work on newline-free JSON, or minified javascript, or
 |other pseudo-text data without newlines).

Maybe yes.  Pretty sure even.

 |But, yeah, "they don't care any more".  I have yet to find a way to

Yeah, really.  That.  And then i want mupdf (which became
a monster that has a 143 MB package here) to give me a way to
look and scroll through the history.  Just a window with the
content.  Has not even a window that shows shortcuts.

 |configure recent Linuces so that text tools (ul, sed, etc) work in the
 |"each octet is exactly one character" paradigm (which I want more often
 |than they seem to think I should, even when working on Linux).

LC_ALL=C i would say.  (If that is not C.UTF-8 ;)

 |For that matter I have lost track of the number of tools (Linux tools
 |are the worst but by no means only offenders) that assume X3.64
 |sequences do whatever it is the program is expecting them to...and then
 |there's recent gcc, which outputs *mis-terminated* OSCs.

Not encountered that yet here.  I only have problems with GNU
bison when running it (for nawk) in some container.  bug-bison on
April 26th

  bison -d  awkgram.y
  awkgram.yawkgram.y: : warning:warning:3399;49m;49m  62 shift/reduce conflicts62 shift/reduce conflicts [ [
  7 reduce/reduce conflicts] [8;id=5]984;dicd7=750909046d1c67f7101050b63196dfb1d1050b03090d0b0d10;0h0t0t0p0s0:1/;/hwtwtwp.sg:n/u/.wowrwg./gsnouf.towragr/es/obfitswoanr/em/abniusaoln//hmtamnlu_a
  nlo/dhet/mDli_angondoes/tDiicasg.nhotsmtli#cWsc.ohntfmlli#cWtcso-nrfrl\c-Wconflicts-rrt[-3r9r;\9-Wconflicts-rrm389;;;4\m]
  awkgram.y: note:note: erun with option '-Wcounterexamples' to generate conflict counterexamples[f111d207]580;0i0d00=050919;h4ttdpcs7:/7/0w0w0w.gnu.org/softw6a1r6ef/1b1i1sdo2n/ma0nu7a4l2/0h0t0
  39;49m rerun with option '-Wcounterexamples' to generate conflict counterexamplescts-rri[o3n9/;m4a9nmu]l8/;h;t\l_no]de
  cc -g -Wall -pedantic -Wcast-qual   -O2   -c -o [.]
  ...

Have this for years, but it seems it is the library underground
and noone else uses strange namespace containers in favour of
docker or something.

--steffen
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