[Fribidi-discuss] Building fribidi on OSF1 alpha: snprintf

[Behdad Esfahbod]

I changed it to sprintf, sprintf is in ANSI C, while snprintf is in 
ISO C99.


On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tzafrir,
> >
> > Quoting man printf(3):
> >
> >      Linux libc4.[45] does not have a snprintf, but provides  a
> >      libbsd  that  contains  an snprintf equivalent to sprintf,
> >      i.e., one that ignores the size argument.  Thus,  the  use
> >      of  snprintfwith  early  libc4 leads to serious security
> >      problems.
> >
> > It should be the problem there too, try "LDFLAGS=-lbsd" ./configure".
> >
> > I have no idea of what to do, maybe I can change it to sprintf.
> 
> Hmmm...
> 
> I found snprintf in libdb in /usr/ccs/libdb.a
> However, 'env LDFLAGS="-L/usr/ccs/lib -ldb" ./configure' did not have the
> expected effect. I had to manually add those flags to the end of the two
> link commands that needed snprintf.
> 
> I wanted to test if this really works, but the program I was trying to
> build uses snprintf as well, and refused to build for the same reason (and
> various other reasons)
> 
> 

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Behdad Esfahbod  <behdad at bamdad dot org>
3 Bahman 1380, 2002 Jan 23  [Finger for Geek Code]
"Unix IS user friendly, it is just selective about who his friends are."