[PATCH 1/9] dmx: Fix a non-constant printf format string warning.

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 08:55:47 PDT 2011


On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net>
> ---
>  hw/dmx/input/lnx-keyboard.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/dmx/input/lnx-keyboard.c b/hw/dmx/input/lnx-keyboard.c
> index 5bfb881..5b92f3b 100644
> --- a/hw/dmx/input/lnx-keyboard.c
> +++ b/hw/dmx/input/lnx-keyboard.c
> @@ -429,11 +429,11 @@ static int kbdLinuxOpenVT(int vtno)
>  {
>     int        fd = -1;
>     int        i;
> -    const char *vcs[] = { "/dev/vc/%d", "/dev/tty%d", NULL };
> +    const char *vcs[] = { "/dev/vc/", "/dev/tty", NULL };
>     char       name[64];        /* RATS: Only used in XmuSnprintf */
>
>     for (i = 0; vcs[i]; i++) {
> -        XmuSnprintf(name, sizeof(name), vcs[i], vtno);
> +        XmuSnprintf(name, sizeof(name), "%s%d", vcs[i], vtno);
>         if ((fd = open(name, O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK, 0)) >= 0) break;
>     }
>     if (fd < 0)
> --

I suppose that change is OK, but I seem to remember a conversation on
this list that concluded that those non-const printf format warnings
are quite often bogus. In this case, the code looks obviously correct,
the only problem is that stupid warning.

Matt


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