Hello Martin, On 11/23/2012 12:59 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> .. > Ah, sorry, you are right. I didn't know that Bacula had its own format > directives.
No reason to be sorry. It is not too well known. There are two reasons we have our own print formatting subroutines: 1. I wanted something more secure than glibc to remove some of the strange formatting of printf that easily leads to exploits (stuff like %*n ...) 2. The idea that the meaning of %ld changes depending on whether your architecture is 32/64 bits, IMO, is crazy. In addition, virtually all Bacula prints when the string is already formatted are of the type bsnprintf(buf, size, "%s", msg); rather than bsnprintf(buf, size, msg) to avoid malicious character injection. It requires an additional pass over the string but eliminates a lot of possible problems. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
