On 2001-12-03 19:16 +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > > I find describing HP-UX 10 as a modern OS mildly amusing. :-) > > How old is it? I used to work on HPUX 9, and I'm not old by most > definitions of the word.
Around 1995. > > I completely disagree with your perception that snprintf() is to be > > taken for granted. It's only since C99 that's it's part of C. > > It's been a part of C since C99, that's true. But Wget relies on a > lot of functionality not strictly in C, from alloca to the socket > interface. > > Also, snprintf has become a big security thing recently, when a number > of exploits was based on overflowing a buffer written to by sprintf. > The pressure on vendors might be responsible for some of them being > unusually swift in providing the function. > > But yes, I know I can't take it for granted, hence the provided > replacement. Yes, I'm with you on that. We have exactly the same problems as you here and I for one wish snprintf() had been there from the start. > > But to answer your question, no HP-UX doesn't have it (neither in > > the headers nor in libc). > > HPUX 11 doesn't have it either? Interesting. HP-UX 10 doesn't but HP-UX 11 has it, according to docs.hp.com. The work you did on the list of already downloaded URLs seems to have been efficient ; Wget's long standing tendency to "forget" files in recursive downloads appears to be gone. A million thanks to Hrvoje, the contributors and the testers. -- André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> (Not speaking for my employer, etc.)
