Subject: malloc and printf() Qs.
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Cherry G. Mathew <cherry.g.mathew@gmail.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/15/2007 22:31:32
Hi,

So I recently moved a buggy userland program that was running fine on
-current to Linux, which proceeded to SIGSEGV. I traced it down to
overflowing sprintfs() into (consecutive) malloc()ed buffers. I'm a
bit shocked that it didn't tell me about it on NetBSD. Is this by
design ?

Thanks,

-- 
~Cherry