vsprintf considered dangerous

[Michael Meissner]

In article <3312 at haddock.ISC.COM> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
| In article <1219 at ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> roland at rtsg.lbl.gov (Roland McGrath) writes:
| >[The GNU C library has snprintf() and vsnprintf()]
| 
| This problem came up some time ago in this newsgroup, and I thought I heard it
| said that X3J11 recognized the need for a "safe" sprintf() and would be adding
| snprintf() to the ANSI library.  Whatever happened to that proposal?

It did not get the necessary 2/3 vote to add it, so the proposal was rejected.
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