[PATCH][BZ #16071] Fix file reads for large AF_INET requests from hosts file

[Andreas Schwab]

Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> writes:

> @@ -202,8 +242,8 @@ internal_getent (struct STRUCTURE *result,
>      {
>        /* Terminate the line so that we can test for overflow.  */
>        ((unsigned char *) data->linebuffer)[linebuflen - 1] = '\xff';
> +      p = get_contents (data->linebuffer, linebuflen, stream);

The overflow check should be moved into the wrapper function, which
already does something similar.  It can return a tristate
ok/eof/overflow instead of the buffer pointer, which the caller already
knows.

Andreas.

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