Subject: Re: Again: how how best handle libnbcompat (snprintf)?
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/29/2005 15:07:53
> Snprintf is only used in tiger.c and whirlpool.c, and their use could
> easily be done by sprintf() with no ill effects.
> 
> Cue the cargo cult gasps of "but sprintf is not secure".

This might be the case for that particular package, but there are a few
douzens others out there that need snprintf() (or regex.h, or fnmatch.h for
the matter).
Thus I would be very interested to know how to best integrate
libnbcompat.

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