readstdin: allocate amount of items

Keep track of the amount of items (not a total buffer size), allocate an array of
new items. For now change BUFSIZ bytes to 256 * sizeof(struct item)).

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
index 8d96b6c..27b7a30 100644
--- a/dmenu.c
+++ b/dmenu.c
@@ -550,14 +550,16 @@ static void
 readstdin(void)
 {
 	char *line = NULL;
-	size_t i, junk, size = 0;
+	size_t i, junk, itemsiz = 0;
 	ssize_t len;
 
 	/* read each line from stdin and add it to the item list */
 	for (i = 0; (len = getline(&line, &junk, stdin)) != -1; i++) {
-		if (i + 1 >= size / sizeof *items)
-			if (!(items = realloc(items, (size += BUFSIZ))))
-				die("cannot realloc %zu bytes:", size);
+		if (i + 1 >= itemsiz) {
+			itemsiz += 256;
+			if (!(items = realloc(items, itemsiz * sizeof(*items))))
+				die("cannot realloc %zu bytes:", itemsiz * sizeof(*items));
+		}
 		if (line[len - 1] == '\n')
 			line[len - 1] = '\0';
 		items[i].text = line;