strbuf can call die, which again can call syslog from git-daemon.
Endless recursion is no fun; fix it by hand-rolling the logic. As
a side-effect malloc/realloc errors are changed into non-fatal
warnings; this is probably an improvement anyway.
Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> Noticed-by: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>