It has changed in the past, and these days, anyone can get a copy of the
LGPL via the web rather than by post.
Like 657a122 (Remove FSF mailing address) in libabc by Josh Tripplet,
but let the FSF website in which the license can be found.
Using 2048 as buffer sizer for strbuf is a bit exaggerated. strbuf is
used much more when we are not using mmapped indexes, but it's used for
mmapped when for example searching for an alias. A quick and dirty hack
to output the size of our strbufs is to print buf->used inside
strbuf_str(). Doing this and creating some statistics with:
while read xxx alias xxx; do
tools/modprobe -R "$alias" > /dev/null;
done < /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.alias 2>&1 | \
Rscript -e 'summary (as.numeric (readLines ("stdin")))'
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. NA's
1.00 29.00 31.00 31.55 38.00 92.00 26
So, reduce the step to 128, which is still greater than the maximum in
these cases. In the worst case this can only create a few calls to
realloc(), while keeping the memory footprint low for the common cases.
Lucas De Marchi