Subject: bin/17832: poor formatting of ktr_user data
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <paul@whooppee.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/04/2002 06:19:28
>Number:         17832
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       poor formatting of ktr_user data
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 04 06:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Goyette
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6A
>Organization:
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>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD pc1.whooppee.com 1.6A NetBSD 1.6A (PC1) #14: Sun Jun 9 13:08:20 PDT 2002 paul@pc1.whooppee.com:/usr/obj/.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/PC1 i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	Formatting of the data portion of ktr_user records is currently
	done by treating each byte as a char and writing it with format
	%x.  On some platforms, char is implicitly signed, so the %x
	format may print 1, 2, or 9 hex digits.  Since there is no space
	between the bytes, it is impossible to divine the actual data
	being displayed.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Define MALLOC_OPTIONS U in your environment, and then ktrace -tu
	some program that does malloc()s.  Examine the output.
>Fix:
	Cast each byte to an unsigned char before printing, force the
	field width to 2 hex digits (%02x).  Also would be nice to use
	some spacing, so format "%02x " would be nice.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: