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Re: Alan Cox's patches

1998-07-05 19:06:38

Couldn't you just #ifdef HAS_SNPRINTF the things or something?

Isn't this what gnu autoconf is for?

.pm

Richard Coleman writes:
What is the reason that the security-related patches made by Alan Cox in Ma
y
were not incorporated into nmh?  Are there plans to include them in future
nmh releases?

That patch converted all the sprintf() calls to snprintf() calls.
Although this is generally a good idea, the substitute snprintf()
routine that comes with nmh uses temp files.  For machines without
a native snprintf(), the performance is so bad, that nmh becomes
unusable.

I've been looking for a better version of snprintf() to include in
the nmh distribution, but haven't found one yet.

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Richard Coleman
coleman(_at_)math(_dot_)gatech(_dot_)edu



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