[Fribidi-discuss] Building fribidi on OSF1 alpha: snprintf
Omer Zak
omerz at actcom.co.il
Tue Jan 22 15:25:03 EST 2002
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> I changed it to sprintf, sprintf is in ANSI C, while snprintf is in
> ISO C99.
Please don't downgrade to sprintf from snprintf.
The reason: buffer overflow risk.
Anyone who doesn't have snprintf in his OS - refer him to the punishment
meted out to people who post stupid newbie questions to the Linux-IL
mailing list.
If someone MUST compile without snprintf, it means that his OS is very
very insecure.
--- Omer
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