Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix for #568

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:44:19PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote:
> What finally made it work was to invert the logic for fetching data and
> scanning for newline/carriage return characters and copying strings into
> the line.  Now the scan-buffer-line is more complicated, while the
> port-specific read-line implementations are a little bit simpler.

That reminds me: in posixunix.scm the read-line code sets some slot
number 5.  I was unable to figure out what this was for.  It seems to
update it to the current position in the buffer while it's scanning and
then resets it to 0 at the end, but this isn't used anywhere I could see.

Because it looks like it's unused and no other port seems to have or use
a slot 5, I just removed it.  Please let me know if this is a mistake!

Cheers,
Peter
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