Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:25:29 -0400 From: "'cgf@cygnus.com'" To: Eric Hanchrow Cc: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" Subject: Re: 1.1.2: snprintf writes one too many characters Message-ID: <20000811122529.A19863@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: Eric Hanchrow , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" References: <0102AE2D3200D4118AE20050DACDB02E017367@congress.vhcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <0102AE2D3200D4118AE20050DACDB02E017367@congress.vhcorp.com>; from erich@votehere.net on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:22:49AM -0700 On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 09:22:49AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: >In http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-08/msg00276.html Doug and cgf >write: > ... > > >on Linux and HP-UX, when the string exceeds 'size' then (size - 1) > >chars plus a NUL are written, but on Cygwin 'size' chars are written > >and a NUL is placed into target[size] > > It sounds like a bug to me. > >And it sounds like a bug to the GNU Configure script (at least, the >version that comes with >ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh- >2.1.1p4.tar.gz). >That script reproduces the problem with this little C program: > > #include > int main(void) > { > char b[5]; > snprintf(b,5,"123456789"); > return(b[4]!='\0'); > } > >The correct return value is 0, but on Cygwin, we get non-zero. > >This problem prevents me from building openssh. This has already been noted. The problem is fixed in the newlib CVS repository. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com