From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-12-30T03:47:53+09:00
Subject: Re: unsafe readline(), anything better?

Hi,

In message "Re: unsafe readline(), anything better?"
    on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:05:11 +0900, Rob Muhlestein <rmuhlestein@yahoo.com> writes:

|If there is enough interest, maybe I'll hack a readmaxline() method into
|an IO patch to submit. Actually, on second thought, how about adding a
|second parameter:
|
|    ios.readline(sep_string=$/,maxlen=nil)
|
|The tough question would then be whether to raise an LineTooLong exception
|or just return what could be read of the line up to that point.

I have added the second optional argument to specify maximum length
limit for gets, readline, readlines, etc.  I will commit the change
for HEAD soon.  Webrick and others should be updated using the new
feature.

							matz.