Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.c

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 11:06:48PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:50:28PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:13:52PM -0800, Chris Pressey wrote:
> > >   Fix by only fwrite(3)ing the string up to the first NUL character.
> > Could you replace the inline code with memchr?
> 
> I still don't understand what was wrong with using printf("%.*s").

%.*s expects an integer length, but sysctl can return a size_t, which is
longer on most (all) 64bit platforms?

Joerg