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<Para>
A conventional C '\0' terminated string with no length
- limitation. A frontend should always read the full string
- even though it may have to discard characters if its buffers
- aren't big enough.
+ limitation.
+ If <Replaceable>s</Replaceable> is specified it is the literal value.
+ Eg. String, String("user").
+</Para>
+
<Note>
<Para>
-Is 8193 bytes the largest allowed size?
+<Emphasis>There is no predefined limit</Emphasis> on the length of a string
+that can be returned by the backend. Good coding strategy for a frontend
+is to use an expandable buffer so that anything that fits in memory can be
+accepted. If that's not feasible, read the full string and discard trailing
+characters that don't fit into your fixed-size buffer.
</Para>
</Note>
- If <Replaceable>s</Replaceable> is specified it is the literal value.
- Eg. String, String("user").
-</Para>
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