From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   On 6/23/2025 8:37 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:17:57 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >> Unfortunately that means that the entire fallback algorithm   
   >> in tds_vasprintf (write to null device to find output size,   
   >> allocate buffer of correct size and then write to buffer)   
   >> is broken.   
   >   
   > What a dumb way to do it. Using the null device means making OS I/O calls   
   > -- needless overhead just to find out how long a string -- which is being   
   > put together entirely in userland -- needs to be.   
      
   Fallback algorithms are often primitive.   
      
   But if you have a simple better way of achieving it then please send   
   the code to Craig so he can send it upstream.   
      
   Arne   
      
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