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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove all uses of printf's %n
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 21:23:05 -0700
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On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 13:09 +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.

Tetsuo-san:

> We are discussing about removal of %n support from vsnprintf() at
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/16/52 , and you are using %n in seq_printf().

Well, I'm not using (mere alcohol isn't using, right?)
but I still have the same question for Al.

Are there any races here?

> I posted https://lkml.org/lkml/diff/2013/9/19/53/1 which introduces
> seq_setwidth() / seq_pad() which can avoid use of %n in seq_printf().

I still think adding last_len, last_rtn
is sensible.