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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stdio: fix vfscanf with matches longer than INT_MAX (bug 27650)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 10:57:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mttc6vpz.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210325140102.31043-1-hi@alyssa.is> (Alyssa Ross's message of "Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:01:02 +0000")

* Alyssa Ross:

> Patterns like %*[ can safely be used to match a great many characters,
> and it's quite realisitic to use them for more than INT_MAX characters
> from an IO stream.
>
> With the previous approach, after INT_MAX characters (v)fscanf would
> return successfully, indicating an end to the match, even though there
> wasn't one.

I've pushed to this commit, thanks.

We can integrate the test once your copyright assignment is on file.

Thanks,
Florian


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-03  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-25 14:01 Alyssa Ross
2021-03-25 17:25 ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-25 20:28   ` Alyssa Ross
2021-03-25 21:24     ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-26 12:00       ` Alyssa Ross
2021-03-26 12:17         ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-29 12:01   ` Alyssa Ross
2021-03-29 13:34     ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-29 18:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] stdio: add test for scanf " Alyssa Ross
2021-05-09 21:56   ` Alyssa Ross
2021-05-03  8:57 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-05-09 16:32   ` [PATCH] stdio: fix vfscanf with " Alyssa Ross

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