rankin@EQL.Caltech.EDU (Pat Rankin) (06/16/87)
> it doesn't seem like much of a "bug" to me to have the RTL only read() > 64K bytes at a time. 'taint a bug, 'tis a feature. you wouldn't > want RMS to have a tight for loop to move data around when it can > be done with one instruction... RMS shouldn't loop but read() could. strlen() and strcpy() accept arbitrarily large input strings by performing internal loops that handle up to 65535 bytes at a time.