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

[Nadav Har'El]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002, Omer Zak wrote about "Re: [Fribidi-discuss] Building fribidi on OSF1 alpha: snprintf":
> ... and of course, several computers are cracked into by exloiting buffer
> overflows.  Let's stamp out sprintf everywhere we see it.  Even where it
> doesn't seem to cause harm today.  Code gets maintained, and tomorrow
> someone may neglect to prove that sprintf-created strings don't overflow
> their allotted space.

Why not use snprintf, and if snprintf is not available (you ARE using
autoconf, aren't you?) #define it to be sprintf?

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