Bug#70762: textutils: tail segfault
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 08:18:40PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> Why does it have to use fprintf? It's hard to imagine fprintf() not
Read the coreutils source code.
> requiring to malloc any buffers, since it *is* supposed to handle output
> to files, and it has to parse & expand format strings, etc.. Perhaps the
> real issue is that fatal error messages should not be output through
> fprintf, but a special, last-resort output facility that doesn't require
> extra memory.
I can think of quite a few ways to do fprintf("%s: ", s) without using
malloc. In the fact, you can find a mallocless implementation in the
Linux kernel.
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