On 8/26/06, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote: > BUFSIZE is arbitrarily set to 1000. Doesn't this make the code prone > to buffer overruns? nope. see http://www.erlang.se/doc/doc-5.5/lib/erl_interface-3.5.5/doc/html/erl_connect.html#erl_receive_msg/4 if the buffer is too small, erl_receive_msg returns ERL_ERROR and sets erl_errno to EMSGSIZE