tech-userlevel: Re: proposal: disable *printf %n specifier in libc in NetBSD 1.5

Subject: Re: proposal: disable *printf %n specifier in libc in NetBSD 1.5
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Noriyuki Soda <soda@sra.co.jp>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/12/2000 00:56:53

> > > The %n format specifier is not used very often -- I've been unable to
> > > find any use of it within the NetBSD source tree.
> > 
> > That means NetBSD userland is not well internationalized. :-<
> 
> How is %n used in I18N ?

Oops, what I thought was "%DIGIT$" (which is not currently implemented
on NetBSD), not "%n".
Sorry, I need more coffee.

("%DIGIT$" may be used for DoS attack at least)
--
soda