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On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 11:32:03 -0400, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> And OpenVMS and apps have not-particularly-reentrant and
> not-particularly-performant code that calls some system service to first
> size the data and then allocate the buffer and then calls again to
> return the data.

I can mention examples from the Linux world, too. How else would you do 
it?