On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:05:31PM +0530, Prabhu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing user- space driver. My intention is to print whatever
> string i am enter into terminal.
>
> Here i am using setbuf function to sent the data to the print after
> some fixed string length.
>
> I wrote below program for understand setbuf functionality. But i am
> getting unpredictable result for some output . can any one explain
> the why i am getting these result.
>
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# cat a.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> main()
> {
> char buff2[]= "hello world";
> char buf1[6]="";
>From the manpage:
You must make sure that the space that buf points to still
exists by the time stream is closed, which also happens at
program termination. For example, the following is invalid:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
char buf[BUFSIZ];
setbuf(stdin, buf);
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
In addition setbuf assumes the buffer to be BUFSIZE big.
> setbuf(stdin, buf1);
> getchar();
> printf ("%s",buf1);
Do you really want to print buf1 here?
> }
>
>
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# cc a.c
[ don't shoot yourself in the foot, root ]
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> a
> a
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aa
> aa
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaa
> aaa
Here you're just lucky you found some zeros on the stack. You generally
_cannot_ predict what you will find on the stack, if you didn't write to
it in the same function (or a function called by it).
(buf1 now contains {'a', 'a', 'a', '\n', zero, something_likely_zero})
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaa
> aaaa
> root@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaaa
> aaaaa
> hello worldroot@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
You seem to have a stack layout like this:
[ buf1 ] [ buf2 ]
stdio now tries to write "aaaaa\n" (without null-termination) into buf1.
printf sees this: "aaaaa\nhello world\0", and, of course, prints everything
up to the \0.
Btw, your program has severe security vulnerabilities; try feeding it long
(> 18 chars) strings or strings containing printf format specifiers :-).
> aaaaaa
> aaaaaa
> ello worldroot@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaaaaa
> aaaaaaa
> llo worldroot@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaa
> lo worldroot@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaa
> o worldroot@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaa
> worldroot@desktop:/home/prabhu# ./a.out
> aaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaa
Thanks / HTH,
Jonathan NeuschÃfer
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