Brian Gerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > Brian Gerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >>- Make sprintf call vsnprintf directly > >>- use INT_MAX for sprintf and vsprintf
> > This is the size limit on what is written. 4GiB sounds a bit extreme... > Sprintf has no limit, which is why it's generally bad to use it. I just > replaced an open coded ((~0U)>>1) value with the equivalent INT_MAX. Which is the same as "no limit" in my book. Either you know a limit (in which case vsprintf() is OK) or you don't (in which case vsnprintf() is just obfuscation). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
