RE: vsnprintf - segement fault

[Lemley James - jlemle]

You have the wrong list; this is bug-coreutils which deals with the
coreutils package.  If you suspect you have a glibc bug, there is a list
called bug-glibc.  

Now that that is out of the way, here's an answer:  

It is not a bug, but %n is causing vsprintf to expect an argument where
you have passed none.  

What you have written looks to me like the equivalent of: 
printf ("%n"); 
which of course won't work because you haven't passed another parameter.
See the man page for vsprintf: %n is special, and requires an int
pointer as a paramter. 

If you want any string to work with your function, try calling it like
this: 
Dump("%s", "Will cause segment fault -- %n");

That, or double up your percent signs if you want a literal percent
sign: 
Dump("Will cause segment fault -- %%n");

--James 



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Kalle Skott
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Subject: vsnprintf - segement fault


This small code snippet will cause a segment fault in:
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