From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
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