char buf[LINE_MAX]

Why do programmers still code in arbitrary limits like these?

It breaks when you do
#define LINE_MAX UINT_MAX

Why not redesign so that you use an O(1) space algorithm, or if it can't be avoided, dynamically allocate as much as needed?

>>31
What. Dick lips.

Suppose you are parsing an incoming message, for example, the following message comes into your socket:


1 512 1024 I am humping a goat. The Sussman is humping a goat.

And you have a buffer of size 16, you read in the first 16 characters, so your buffer is filled with this:


1 512 1024 I am

How do you plan to save the state so that the full message can be read and understood after the whole thing has been read and processed?