/* in stateless RPC mode we use pkt-line to read
                         * from stdin, until we get a flush packet
                         */
-                       static char line[1000];
                        for (;;) {
-                               int n = packet_read_line(0, line, sizeof(line));
-                               if (!n)
+                               char *line = packet_read_line(0, NULL);
+                               if (!line)
                                        break;
-                               string_list_append(&sought, xmemdupz(line, n));
+                               string_list_append(&sought, xstrdup(line));
                        }
                }
                else {