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authorDaniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>2009-11-12 21:01:00 +0000
committerDaniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>2009-11-12 21:01:00 +0000
commitb86ab4ff1548b4524bb90e3348ae416c586e8380 (patch)
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* remote-fileio.c (remote_fileio_func_read): Limit console
reads to 16K.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/remote-fileio.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/remote-fileio.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/remote-fileio.c b/gdb/remote-fileio.c
index 1683e99..31ee244 100644
--- a/gdb/remote-fileio.c
+++ b/gdb/remote-fileio.c
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ remote_fileio_func_read (char *buf)
static char *remaining_buf = NULL;
static int remaining_length = 0;
- buffer = (gdb_byte *) xmalloc (32768);
+ buffer = (gdb_byte *) xmalloc (16384);
if (remaining_buf)
{
remote_fio_no_longjmp = 1;
@@ -763,7 +763,18 @@ remote_fileio_func_read (char *buf)
}
else
{
- ret = ui_file_read (gdb_stdtargin, (char *) buffer, 32767);
+ /* Windows (at least XP and Server 2003) has difficulty
+ with large reads from consoles. If a handle is
+ backed by a real console device, overly large reads
+ from the handle will fail and set errno == ENOMEM.
+ On a Windows Server 2003 system where I tested,
+ reading 26608 bytes from the console was OK, but
+ anything above 26609 bytes would fail. The limit has
+ been observed to vary on different systems. So, we
+ limit this read to something smaller than that - by a
+ safe margin, in case the limit depends on system
+ resources or version. */
+ ret = ui_file_read (gdb_stdtargin, (char *) buffer, 16383);
remote_fio_no_longjmp = 1;
if (ret > 0 && (size_t)ret > length)
{