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Re: lynx-dev Some more security issues in Lynx...
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Some more security issues in Lynx... |
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Sat, 31 Oct 1998 08:29:13 -0500 (EST) |
>
> I seem to recall, either earlier this year here, or on another ml I am
> on, someone was discussing a freely available printf like function which
> dynamically allocated the buffer that was used. That would be _much_
> better that snprintf, which at least on solaris doesn't define what
> happens if formatting the string exceeds the buffer that is given.
The only ones I can recall were very much dependent on the underlying I/O
library. I can take a look if someone has a pointer, but I prefer to not
tie things to a particular library. I wrote a portable one for ncurses
last year (for testing purposes) but I don't _use_ it because it makes the
program run more slowly.
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> Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
> be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
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