Re: [PATCH] Add compat/vsnprintf.c for systems that returns -1 on maxsize reached

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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:59:28PM +0100, Michal Rokos wrote:

> +	while ( ret == -1 )
> +	{
> +		maxsize = (maxsize*3)/2;
> +		s = realloc(s, maxsize);
> +		if (! s) return -1;
> +		ret = vsnprintf(s, maxsize, format, ap);  /* <--- UNSAFE! */
> +	}

This is not generally safe, you cannot call vsnprintf multiple times
with the same ap on all architectures. You need va_copy (or __va_copy,
or VA_COPY, differs a bit between different architectures, especially
one the ones with a broken vsnprintf I guess..)

- Finn Arne
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