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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] switch from sprintf to asprintf and snprintf
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:51:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100101115158.GF3692@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B39CC24.9060607@gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:30:12AM +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> sprintf is potentially dangerous especially with gettext, when messages
> may be larger than coder would expect. I attach the patch to fix it

Could you split the patches into one for asprintf and one for *nprintf?  The
asprintf one is something I'd really like to see in trunk.  For the rest I'm
not so sure.

-- 
Robert Millan

  "Be the change you want to see in the world" -- Gandhi



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-01 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-29  9:30 [PATCH] switch from sprintf to asprintf and snprintf Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-01  9:32 ` Colin Watson
2010-01-01 11:52   ` Robert Millan
2010-01-01 12:01     ` Colin Watson
2010-01-17 12:02     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-19 22:29       ` Robert Millan
2010-01-19 22:56         ` Colin Watson
2010-01-19 23:16           ` Robert Millan
2010-01-17 11:59   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-01-01 11:51 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2010-01-17 12:02   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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