[comp.os.vms] C RTL bug

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.