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Author SHA1 Message Date
Sheldon Hearn
71207448cf Improve the explanation on the (in)security of mktemp(3). 2000-01-25 13:58:46 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
466c0416c8 We no longer care about the VAX and Tahoe compilers :-) 2000-01-17 01:28:00 +00:00
Jason Evans
929273386f Add three-tier symbol naming in support of POSIX thread cancellation
points.  For library functions, the pattern is __sleep() <--
_libc_sleep() <-- sleep().  The arrows represent weak aliases.  For
system calls, the pattern is _read() <-- _libc_read() <-- read().
2000-01-12 09:23:48 +00:00
Kris Kennaway
3076db1900 Correct discrepancy between definition of argument to tempnam() and
the name by which it is referenced in the text.
2000-01-09 08:54:03 +00:00
Peter Wemm
5f02be00bc While comparing this with OpenBSD (ie: trying to figure out what mkstemps()
is good for... :-)), I discovered that part of the change when mkstemps()
was brought in was missed - it was missing the termination case to make
sure it doesn't walk into the suffix.  This isn't the same code OpenBSD
has, I think this is a little better as we terminate the loop in a better
spot.
1999-12-11 14:48:24 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
dcd26325e8 Make __sfp() even more thread-safe. 1999-11-21 22:34:57 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
32fc781e06 Add (FILE *) locking. 1999-11-20 14:52:03 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
e33f599134 Make __sfp() (FILE allocator) thread-safe: added locking like in malloc(). 1999-11-20 14:01:48 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
3c0c03cdf1 Fix HISTORY - the copyright header on the file of the GCC version was
misleading.

Submitted by:	Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
1999-11-20 00:15:17 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
b6419b666f Add to the HISTORY. 1999-11-19 17:13:31 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
bac6a61c15 Add unsigned char cast to isdigit 1999-11-04 04:57:05 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
5eb8ccf583 Remove UNSAFE_WARN ifdef for mktemp warning (never defined)
Use _mktemp internally
1999-10-24 11:57:24 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7f3dea244c $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 00:22:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
028aace8e1 Add warnings, ala mktemp, to tempnam and tmpnam as a reminder that
these are inherently unsafe interfaces.

Do not allow TMPDIR to override path for setuid/setgid programs.
1999-08-21 17:56:44 +00:00
Robert Nordier
18e08df153 Treat an attempt to read from a write-only stream more consistently.
Submitted by: Anton Berezin <tobez@plab.ku.dk>
PR          : 12852
1999-08-10 21:36:51 +00:00
Bruce Evans
749a33625d Fixed missing "G" in the list item for the main description of %g and
%G formats.
1999-08-08 11:00:01 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
6a8e2895aa asprintf() does use realloc() internally, but saying so in the manpage can be
misinterpreted to mean that the pointer passed to asprintf() must be suitable
for passing to realloc() as-is (ie. either a NULL pointer or a valid pointer).
1999-07-25 17:38:59 +00:00
Nik Clayton
fbc400a67a Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The $Id$ line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:50:10 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
f24c2153d5 Add a note that when a stream opened via fdopen() is closed via fclose(),
the underlying file descriptor is also closed. To me at least this wasn't
immediately obvious.
1999-05-17 23:47:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
26ba999e7e Various language and style concerns fixed.
Noted by: bde
1999-04-09 18:26:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
2ee878400e Add mkstemps to the man page, and create a link for it.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
Poked in the eye about committing new functions without a manpage: obrien
1999-04-04 21:15:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
06b6a8ab98 Add mkstemps from OpenBSD. This has been in my tree for months and
hasn't caused any problems until the egcs import.  This fix breaks the
world build, but my very next commit will remove mkstemps from the
egcs build.
1999-04-04 20:28:04 +00:00
Doug Rabson
93263596ac Add support for long long modifier (e.g. %llx, %lld).
Reviewed by: bde
1999-03-11 22:44:02 +00:00
Bruce Evans
dcf01d60ba Fixed disordering and incoinsistent style in previous commit. 1999-03-05 13:01:22 +00:00
Bruce Evans
b300c1d8f9 The pseudocode in the synopsis didn't come close to actually
compiling, since <stdio.h> correctly doesn't declare off_t although
the pseudo-prototypes for the new fseeko() and ftello() functions
use it.  Handle this like the corresponding problem for va_list
versus the vprintf() family.

Fixed some English errors.
1999-03-05 12:56:37 +00:00
Tim Vanderhoek
654b249ced Decapitalize function name by prepending with word "The".
PR:		docs/10247
1999-02-26 01:28:06 +00:00
Dmitrij Tejblum
7307d07db6 Added functions fseeko() and ftello() (from susv2).
Fixed fgetpos() and fsetpos() for offsets > 2GB.

PR:		8637
Submitted by:	 Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> (adjusted by me a little)
1999-02-08 21:32:38 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
70efdda93d Note that dying on NULL is an implementation detail. 1998-12-17 17:13:47 +00:00
Robert Nordier
e524a581b1 Check for a zero-length as well as a NULL string argument. 1998-10-29 14:40:20 +00:00
Peter Wemm
ed1bbda829 Revert last change. mkstemp() wasn't to blame, it's nvi. However,
mkstemp() is not behaving as documented.
1998-10-20 15:33:21 +00:00
Peter Wemm
eb356f9af0 Stop mk*temp() from being pathologically stupid in the face of a umask(0);
There are other ways to fix this than wrapping _gettemp(), but this was
the most convenient.

Discovered by: bde
1998-10-20 12:36:36 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
b41c848d46 Remove the description of EBADF (that's an implementation detail if I
ever saw one), and move the description of NULL behaviour out to a
'NOTES' section, with an extra note that programs should not rely up
on it.

Kinda-approve-by:	bde (by not replying to the mail with the diff)
1998-10-10 13:31:32 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
aef1f383cf program written under FreeBSD -> programs written under FreeBSD
Noticed by:	Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net>
1998-10-03 16:17:30 +00:00
Eivind Eklund
8bd4c21699 Document that we will core-dump on getting a NULL pointer. 1998-09-28 15:34:24 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
5846581c2e Apply patch to properly sscanf(3) when there is whitespace in the format
string.  From the submitted patch:

Credit for patch:	Chris Torek <torek@bsdi.com>
			Tod Miller  <millert@openbsd.org>

This makes us in line with SunOS 4.1.3_U1, Solaris 2.6, OpenBSD 2.3,
HP-UX 10.20, Irix 5.3.  The previous behavior was in line with Ultrix 4.4.

PR:		bin/7970
Submitted by:	Niall Smart nialls@euristix.ie
1998-09-25 12:20:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
e8420087b0 Replace memory leaking instances of realloc with non-leaking reallocf.
In some cases replace if (a == null) a = malloc(x); else a =
realloc(a, x); with simple reallocf(a, x).  Per ANSI-C, this is
guaranteed to be the same thing.

I've been running these on my system here w/o ill effects for some
time.  However, the CTM-express is at part 6 of 34 for the CAM
changes, so I've not been able to do a build world with the CAM in the
tree with these changes.  Shouldn't impact anything, but...
1998-09-16 04:17:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
64a965e707 Replace my original asprintf() and vasprintf() hacks with something
more cleanly integrated with stdio.  This should be faster and cleaner
since it doesn't memcpy() the data into a seperate buffer.  This lets
stdio allocate and manage the buffer and then hand it over to the user.

Obtained from: Todd Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> via OpenBSD
1998-07-08 00:44:56 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
9c727d2ca9 Spelling corrections.
PR: 6868
Submitted by: Josh Gilliam <josh@quick.net>
1998-06-06 05:50:53 +00:00
John Birrell
f9a8e5fafb Remote the NetBSD kludge for vfprintf.c 1998-05-08 05:17:11 +00:00
John Birrell
77af5d1ac8 Don't assign the va_list variable 'ap' directly to the argtable because
va_list is not a pointer on alpha. Instead, use the va_arg() macro
to return the address that is stored in the argtable.
1998-05-08 05:10:32 +00:00
John Birrell
4c717fd74d Remove leading underscores for the functions (weak symbols here) that
POSIX defines.
1998-05-05 21:56:42 +00:00
Peter Wemm
4fea76f539 Fix a nasty flaw as a result of using the arc4random() pre-seeding of
leading XXX's.  It could wrap an uppercase character through chars
like:  [ \ ] ^ _ `  in between Z and a.  The backslash and back tick
might be particularly nasty in a shell script context.  Also, since
we've been using upper-case generated values for a while now, go with
the flow and use them in the pathname search rotation.
1998-04-14 07:25:05 +00:00
John Birrell
ec216c2634 Add FILE locking stubs for libc.
Change the FILE locking to support kernel threads when linked with
libpthread (which you haven't see yet). This requires that libc become
thread-safe and thread-aware, testing __isthreaded before attempting
to do lock/unlock calls. The impact on non-threaded programs is minor.
This change works with libc_r, so it's the best compromise.
1998-04-11 07:40:47 +00:00
Bruce Evans
034abff918 Fixed disordering and inconsistent style in previous commit. 1998-03-12 12:05:14 +00:00
John Birrell
e7b6782c39 Added #include <string.h> to get prototypes. 1998-03-09 06:51:23 +00:00
Stephen McKay
b8e5e42d0f Fixed a few ancient typos, added a little missing stuff, and updated
references to abort() in light of POSIX mandated behaviour.  I'm
still not 100% happy with much of the wording, but it's better
than it was.
1998-03-08 15:15:33 +00:00
Bruce Evans
87ad126763 Fixed uninitialized pointer in previous commit. mktemp() was broken.
I noticed cvs core dumps and uncleaned cvs temporary files in /tmp.

Fixed ANSIisms.
1998-03-03 14:38:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
2f253e75c8 Many security improvements from OpenBSD:
implement mkdtemp
	improve man page for mk*temp
	use arc4random to seed extra XXX's randomly
	Optionally warn of unsafe mktemp uses
From various commits by theo de raadt and Todd Miller.
Obtained from: OpenBSD

This should go into 2.2 after a testing period.
1998-02-13 02:13:24 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
b250f24856 size_t -> unsigned
in arguments length INT_MAX overflow check
Suggested-by: bde
1998-01-04 22:28:47 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
8c6d2f42e1 1. EOF was returned when the buffer size was larger than INT_MAX. This
case has very little to do with the output size being larger than
   INT_MAX.
2. The new #include of <limits.h> was disordered.
3. The new declaration of `on' was disordered (integer types go together).
4. Testing an unsigned value for > 0 was fishy.

Submitted by: bde
1998-01-01 20:15:58 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
92e88f87b9 Add overflow checks: if output size becomes bigger than INT_MAX,
just return EOF
1997-12-25 00:32:17 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
fb25537fb8 Correct type of stored argument place (from previous fix) 1997-12-24 23:54:19 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
947d101171 1) Restore back comment about snprintf()
2) Optimize string buffer copy to call memcpy() and update pointers
only for count > 0, it makes snprintf(NULL, 0, ...) more efficient
1997-12-24 23:23:18 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
6e690ad4ca Return back to BSD snprintf semantics which recent C9x standard adopts
instead of Singe Unix, thanx Bruce for explaining, I am not realize
standards war was there.

But now, fix n == 0 case to not return error and fix check for too
big n.

Things left to do: check for overflow in arguments.
1997-12-24 23:02:47 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
e0b123f6d0 1) Oops! Insert again if (n == 0) return 0.
Final word is Bruce's quote:

C9x specifies the BSD4.4-Lite behaviour:

       [#3] ...   Thus,  the
       null-terminated  output  has  been completely written if and
       only if the returned value is less than n.

It means that if we not have any null-terminated output as for n == 0
we can't return value less than n, so we forced to return value
equal to n i.e. 0

The next good thing is glibc compatibility, of course.

2) Do check for too big n in machine-independent way.
3) Minor optimization assuming EOF is < 0
1997-12-24 20:24:08 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
5ebfa8de69 Back out part related to "return 0 if n == 0" and return EOF as before.
The main argument is that it is impossible to determine if %n evaluated or not
when snprintf return 0, because it can happens for both n == 0 and n == 1.
Although EOF here is good indication of the end of process, if n is
decreased in the loop...
Since it is already supposed in many places that EOF *is* negative, f.e.
from Single Unix specs for snprintf
"return ... a negative value if an output error was encountered"
this not makes situation worse.
1997-12-24 14:32:40 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
97adcd5ba1 Fix snprintf(...%n...)
to pass not more than buffer size to %n agrument, old variant
always assume infinite buffer.
%n is for actually transmitted characters, not for planned ones.
1997-12-24 13:47:13 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
a65a537cb1 Remove wrong comment about snprintf:
"return the number of bytes needed, rather the number used"

According to Single Unix specs:

Upon successful completion, these functions return the number of bytes
transmitted excluding the terminating null
1997-12-24 13:17:13 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
4ecaf22055 snprintf return value fixes to conform Single Unix specs:
1) if buffer size is smaller than arguments size, return buffer
size, not arguments size as before.

2) if buffer size is 0, return 0, not EOF as before.
(now it is compatible with Linux and Apache implementations too).

NOTE: Single Unix specs says:

If the value of n {buffer size} is zero on a call to snprintf(), an
unspecified value less than 1 is returned.

It means we can't return EOF since EOF can take *any* value in general
not especially < 1. Better variant will be return -1 (it is less then
1 and different with n == 1 case) but -1 value is already occuped by
EOF in our implementation, so we can't distinguish true IO error
in that case. So 0 here is only possible case still conforming
to Single Unix specs.
1997-12-24 12:31:32 +00:00
Bruce Evans
6a93659f24 Comment that long double is poorly implemented, not that it is unimplemented. 1997-12-19 21:59:22 +00:00
Bruce Evans
8fddd06099 Fixed long double formats. They were mostly not implemented except
on systems where long doubles are just doubles.  FreeBSD hasn't
been such a system since it started using gcc-2.5 many years ago.
The fix is of low quality.  It loses precision.

scanf() of long doubles doesn't seem to be used much, but gdb-4.16
uses %Lg format in its expression parser if it thinks that the
system supports printf'ing of long doubles.  The symptom was that
floating point literals were usually interpreted to be 0.0.
1997-11-23 06:02:47 +00:00
Bruce Evans
b966cc2394 Sorted lists. 1997-10-21 08:41:15 +00:00
Bruce Evans
2bc3b4d735 Removed the subdirectory paths from the definitions of MAN[1-9]. They
were a workaround for limitations in bsd.man.mk that were fixed about
2 years ago.
1997-10-15 16:16:41 +00:00
Peter Wemm
e48f3cfbfc Rework previous commit.. I was confused by the number of diffs in the PR
and forgot what I was trying to do originally and accidently zapped
a feature. :-]  The problem is that we are converting a counted buffer in
a malloc pool into a null terminated C-style string.  I was calling realloc
originally to shrink the buffer to the desired size.  If realloc failed, we
still returned the valid buffer - the only thing wrong was it was a tad
too large.  The previous commit disabled this.

This commit now handles the three cases..
1: the buffer is exactly right for the null byte to terminate the
string (we don't call realloc).
2: it's got h.left = 0, so we must expand it to make room. If realloc
fails here, it's fatal.
3: if there's too much room, we realloc to shrink it - a failed realloc
is not fatal, we use the original buffer which is still valid.
1997-07-06 08:42:37 +00:00
Peter Wemm
3c55a3f243 Fix off-by-one error
PR: 3451
Submitted by: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
1997-07-06 07:54:56 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
5e17038f01 Add 64 bit int support to scanf()
PR:		2080
Submitted by:	David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
1997-07-01 17:46:39 +00:00
John Birrell
870039320f Changed all paths to be relative to src/lib instead of src/lib/libc
so that all these makefiles can be used to build libc_r too.

Added .if ${LIB} == "c" tests to restrict man page builds to libc
to avoid needlessly building them with libc_r too.

Split libc Makefile into Makefile and Makefile.inc to allow the
libc_r Makefile to include Makefile.inc too.
1997-05-03 03:50:06 +00:00
Bruce Evans
23f0c1fcf6 Fixed #include and/or prototype bugs in synopsis. 1997-04-13 13:35:33 +00:00
Guido van Rooij
0fb28c0973 Fix race
Obtained from: Keith Bostic
1997-04-07 18:01:10 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
ed2bf9a999 Eliminate yet one function call when locale not used 1997-04-04 19:07:02 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
350498c58e Speedup in case locale not used 1997-04-04 18:28:38 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
6c0aebfa90 The w+ entry description was misformatted.
Pointed out by: bde
1997-03-27 18:08:23 +00:00
Bruce Evans
09589ca82e FIxed arg types (mostly missing consts) in synopsis. 1997-03-19 00:52:58 +00:00
Peter Wemm
4f02b68a12 Merge from Lite2 1997-03-11 11:40:40 +00:00
Peter Wemm
e5493ddb0f This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r23658,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.
1997-03-11 11:29:42 +00:00
Peter Wemm
662909a780 Import CSRG 4.4BSD-Lite2 lib/libc onto vendor branch 1997-03-11 11:29:42 +00:00
Bruce Evans
e836e480dc Fixed handling of input failure by the scanf family.
- 0 was returned instead of EOF when an input failure occured while
  skipping white-space after 0 assignments.  This fixes PR2606.  The
  diagnosis in PR2606 is wrong.
- EOF was returned instead of 0 when an input failure occurred after
  zero assignments and nonzero suppressed assignments.
- EOF was spelled -1.

This should be in 2.2.
1997-03-03 17:53:02 +00:00
Peter Wemm
7e546392b5 Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$ 1997-02-22 15:12:41 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
628abd1b29 Add XXX comment describing potential memset non-portable issue
Nitpicked-by: joerg
1997-02-05 20:54:16 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
75141cc987 Sort cross references. 1997-01-20 23:23:22 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
ea295661f9 Use collate for national [a-z]-like ranges
Should go in 2.2
1997-01-16 07:36:14 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
efb7e53d32 The following patch to lib/libc/stdio implements positional arguments in
a manner consistent with other implementations.  Its done in a way that
adds only a tiny amount of overhead when positional arguments are not used.
I also have a test program to go with this, but don't know where it belongs
in the tree.

Submitted-By: Bill Fenner <fenner@FreeBSD.ORG>
1997-01-14 07:31:39 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
1130b656e5 Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore.  This update would have been
insane otherwise.
1997-01-14 07:20:47 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
4347915c16 perror () does not prepend ": " for the non-NULL argument "". close PR 1492
Submitted by: Kent Vander Velden <graphix@iastate.edu>
Reviewed by:
Submitted by:
Obtained from:
1996-09-30 15:39:18 +00:00
Bruce Evans
246537139a .DV -> .Dv (FOPEN_MAX was invisible). 1996-09-28 13:18:12 +00:00
Paul Traina
e295af15d1 fwopen() argument type mis-described
Obtained from: NetBSD lib/2751 (der Mouse)
1996-09-13 19:14:12 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
7bdf80e571 Correctly use .Fn instead of .Nm to reference function names
in a bunch of man pages.

Use the correct .Bx  (BSD UNIX) or .At (AT&T UNIX) macros
instead of explicitly specifying the version in the text
in a bunch of man pages.
1996-08-22 23:31:07 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
a2d402aa3c Update some more man pages to use the .Fx macro. 1996-08-21 22:10:36 +00:00
Peter Wemm
1ec21d5930 Fix nasty bracketing/precedence bug. Every time something read (and
refilled) a file that was either line- or un-buffered, all files were
flushed.  According to the code comment, the flush (according to ANSI)
is supposed to happen on write + line buffered output files, not _all_
files.

Obtained from: OpenBSD / Theo de Raadt, possibly from proven@cygnus.com
1996-08-13 17:49:45 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
47cc13c104 Correct the paramter type of the second argument to fgets.
Obtained from: NetBSD-bugs mailing list
1996-08-06 22:34:44 +00:00
Peter Wemm
ef1c2ba16f Fix some of the problems that bde pointed out to me some time ago.
- buffer expansions were not working right due to a return code botch.
 - signed types instead of size_t's meant somebody else went and put
   casts in, I've changed the types to what they should have been.
1996-07-28 16:16:11 +00:00
James Raynard
ce51cf0392 Suggested by: Bruce Evans, Jeffrey Hsu, Gary Palmer
Added $Id$'s to files that were lacking them (gpalmer), made some
cosmetic changes to conform to style guidelines (bde) and checked
against NetBSD and Lite2 to remove unnecessary divergences (hsu, bde)

One last code cleanup:-

Removed spurious casts in fseek.c and stdio.c.
Added missing function argument in fwalk.c.
Added missing header include in flags.c and rget.c.
Put in casts where int's were being passed as size_t's.
Put in missing prototypes for static functions.
Changed second args of __sflags() inflags.c and writehook() in vasprintf.c
from char * to const char * to conform to prototypes.

This directory now compiles with no warnings with -Wall under
gcc-2.6.3 and with considerably less warnings than before with the
ultra-pedantic script I used for testing. (Most of the remaining ones
are due to const poisoning).
1996-06-22 10:34:15 +00:00
James Raynard
e2f892a7e7 Code cleanup:-
The usual stuff, adding missing function prototypes, argument types,
return values, etc.
1996-06-12 23:02:53 +00:00
James Raynard
45f6af0252 Code cleanup:-
The usual stuff, adding missing function prototypes, argument types,
return values, etc.

This directory now compiles with no warnings with -Wall on gcc2.6.3!
1996-06-12 22:59:55 +00:00
James Raynard
b83100194d Code cleanup:-
The usual stuff, adding missing function prototypes, argument types,
return values, etc. In mktemp.c, convert pid from u_int to pid_t, and
get rid of "extern int errno".
1996-06-12 22:58:21 +00:00
James Raynard
9915c09cf9 Code cleanup:-
The usual stuff, adding missing function prototypes, argument types,
return values, etc.
1996-06-12 22:56:41 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
d230d4275a Reword the sentence about the required space for the result string.
Closes PR # 1303.-
1996-06-09 06:48:42 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
941fbd30eb Fix bogus MLINKS line from vasprintf change. 1996-05-29 05:00:12 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
01fc74a034 add manpage links
asprintf.3 -> printf.3
vasprintf -> printf.3
1996-05-29 01:00:00 +00:00
Peter Wemm
15aa00d597 Add an implementation of the gnu-ish asprintf() and vasprintf(). They are
not based on gpl'ed code, just prototype and usage.  I'm not 100% certain
they behave the same while the system is in trouble (eg: malloc() failing)
but in those circumstances all bets would be off anyway.

These routines work like sprintf() and vsprintf(), except that instead of
using a fixed buffer, they allocate memory and return it to the user
and it's the user's responsibility to free() it.  They have allocate as
much memory as they need (and can get), so the size of strings it can deal
with is limited only by the amount of memory it can malloc() on your
behalf.

There are a few gpl'ed programs starting to use this interface, and it's
becoming more common with the scares about security risks with sprintf().
I dont like the look of the code that the various programs (including
cvs, gdb, libg++, etc) provide if configure can't find it on the system.

It should be possible to modify the stdio core code to provide this
interface more efficiently, I was more worried about having something
that worked and was secure.  :-)  (I noticed that there was once intended
to be a smprintf() routine when our stdio was written for 4.4BSD, but it
looks pretty stillborn, and it's intended interface is not clear).  Since
Linux and gnu libc have this interface, it seemed silly to bring yet
another one onto the scene.
1996-05-27 10:49:43 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
712dc76e87 Fixed various problems: typos, grammer, missing include files
wrong function type declarations, and wrong argument type
declarations.
1996-05-23 01:05:25 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
417349c472 Fix a typo. 1996-05-01 22:49:36 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
20631f47f1 Correct a minor typo. Fixes part of PR#1000.
Submitted by:	Dave Glowacki <dglo@ssec.wisc.edu>
1996-04-09 21:48:21 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
064f007493 Added missing section numbers to a bunch of .Xr macros, or
converted them into .Fn macros where appropriate.  Also fixed
up some minor formatting problems.
1996-03-27 20:49:07 +00:00
Bruce Evans
1b5844118e Removed now-bogus casts that were to hide the inconsistency between the
nonstandard normal version and the standard threaded version.

Removed a bogus L in a constant.  fpos_t's aren't longs, and casting to
fpos_t would be verbose.
1996-03-27 18:07:29 +00:00
Bruce Evans
926bb1cf42 Fixed bogus cross references.
Reviewed by:	mpp
1996-03-27 17:54:40 +00:00
Bruce Evans
fe20c3b61c Say what happens to the buffer when fgets() returns NULL.
Fixed bogus cross references and a misordered line.
1996-03-27 17:43:38 +00:00
Andrey A. Chernov
06b47700ae Since n is int now, sanity check must be n <= 0, not simple n == 0 1996-03-25 12:03:11 +00:00
Paul Richards
880787f0fe Fix incorrect parameter types. 1996-03-24 15:49:34 +00:00
Bill Fenner
261a532a8b The 4.4-lite vfprintf counted the %# hex prefix and the sign in
the precision; ANSI X3J11 is not crystal clear but certainly says
that the precision specifies the number of /digits/, and signs
and "0x" aren't really digits.

NetBSD already has a similar patch.
1996-03-20 18:28:48 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
d428a98d6d Added a little NOTES section explaining that passing in a string that
resides in read-only memory is going to cause the program to core dump,
and this is commmon with older pre-ANSI C programs.

(I've scratched my head over this one at 3 in the morning before
while trying to port some ancient program)

Suggested by:	Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
1996-02-15 05:02:16 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
a5ed710ccd Fix even more spelling errors in some more man pages. 1996-01-30 16:34:52 +00:00
Julian Elischer
f70177e76e Reviewed by: julian and (hsu?)
Submitted by:	 John Birrel(L?)

changes for threadsafe operations
1996-01-22 00:02:33 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
270d3d754a Fix a variety of minor typos and cross references in a bunch of
man pages.

Masanobu Saitoh <msaitoh@spa.is.uec.ac.jp>
Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
<soda@sra.co.jp>
1996-01-20 07:29:11 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
c0d41487f2 Minor cleanup, #include's and unused vars.
Added compile-time warning to an old funky function.
1995-10-22 14:52:30 +00:00
Peter Wemm
216b9a0d22 Make a link-time warning for the use of gets().
IMHO, the run-time warning should come out, but I'm not game to start that
fight yet...  This uses a feature of the gnu linker.

Inspired by:  NetBSD
1995-10-04 18:29:01 +00:00
Bruce Evans
372e515faa This gets() used \r\n, which is doggish. 1995-09-29 18:52:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
fdf4460bf9 fgetline does not exist.. fgetln is in it's place. Correct the X-Ref.
Noticed by:	Brian Tao, Bruce Evans
1995-08-18 14:22:00 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
6c06b4e2aa Remove trailing whitespace. 1995-05-30 05:51:47 +00:00
David Greenman
dbe38b75e5 Fixed typo. 1995-05-15 12:23:03 +00:00
Bruce Evans
ffe57f1a20 Obtained from: 1.1.5 (originally by jtc)
Fix printf("%g", 0.0) - print "0", not "0.".  The previous fixes in this
area had one non-cosmetic (non-)change that caused this bug.

Bruce
1995-04-06 16:28:15 +00:00
Bruce Evans
918bed7582 Remove `|| flags & ALT == 0' which was an obscure no-op, not a
parenthesization/precedence bug.
1995-03-12 13:53:51 +00:00
Bruce Evans
d26be6f09d Obtained from: 1.1.5. Originally by jtc. Cosmetically changed for this
commit by bde.

Fix bugs in floating point formatting.  The 4.4lite version is similar
to revision 1.3 in old-cvs and is missing all of jtc's fixes in revision
1.4 in old-cvs.  Revision 1.2 in ncvs fixed one of the old bugs but
introduced at least one new one (for %.0e).

old-cvs log:
revision 1.4
date: 1993/11/04 19:38:22;  author: jtc;  state: Exp;  lines: +33 -20
My work from NetBSD to make printf() & friends ANSI C compliant.
Fixes several bugs in floating point formatting:
  1. Trailing zeros were being stripped with %e format.
  2. %g/%G formats incorrect.
  3. Lots of other nits.
1995-03-12 13:26:49 +00:00
Doug Rabson
2cc220b6ed Fix handling of 'e' format floating point so that it prints trailing zeros
correctly.
1995-01-19 12:05:53 +00:00
Nate Williams
692a99c012 Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 15:44:49 -0600
From: Chris Torek <torek@bsdi.com>
Here is a semi-official patch (apply to /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/fseek.c,
rebuild libc, install).  The current code fails when the seek:

  - is optimized, and
  - is to just past the end of the block currently in the buffer, and
  - is followed by another seek with no intervening read operation, and
  - the destination of subsequent seek is within the block left in the
    buffer (seeking to the beginning of a block does not force a read,
    so the buffer still contains the previous block)

so it is indeed rather obscure.

I may have a different `final' fix, as this one `loses' the buffer
contents on a seek that goes just past the end of the current block.

[Footnote: seeks are optimized only on read-only opens of regular
files that are buffered by the file's optimal I/O size.  This is
what you get with fopen(path, "r") and no call to setvbuf().]

Obtained from: [ BSDI mailing list ]
1994-11-05 18:49:34 +00:00
Garrett Wollman
2ceb2ce9ee First crack at making libc work with the new make macros. It compiles on
my machine, and a simple static (genassym) and shared (sysctl) executable
both work.  Still to be done: RPCand YP merge.
1994-08-05 01:19:12 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
58f0484fa2 BSD 4.4 Lite Lib Sources 1994-05-27 05:00:24 +00:00