[ECOS] FW: Bug in diag_[v]snprintf

[Gary Thomas]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:24 +0100, CSEBITS Christoph wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BINDER Thomas 
> Sent: Dienstag, 08. Februar 2005 16:18
> To: CSEBITS Christoph
> Subject: Bug in diag_[v]snprintf
> 
> Hi
> 
> We found a problem in the implementation of diag_snprintf, and
> diag_vsnprintf. The functions effectively write len+1 bytes (instead of len
> bytes) to the character buffer.
> 
> According to the man page of snprintf this behaviour is wrong:
> 
> 	 [...]
>        strings).  snprintf and vsnprintf do not write  more  than
>        size bytes (including the trailing '\0'), and return -1 if
>        [...]

How about proposing a patch?  After all, this is an open source
project :-)

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