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Author	vstinner
Recipients	vstinner
Date	2010-05-29.02:24:18
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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"w" format is dangerous because it doesn't give the size of the buffer: the caller may write outside the buffer (buffer overflow). "w" and "w#" formats are fine. It looks like "w" format is not used in trunk nor py3k (only w# and w).

"w" format is dangerous because it doesn't give the size of the buffer: the caller may write outside the buffer (buffer overflow).

"w*" and "w#" formats are fine.

It looks like "w" format is not used in trunk nor py3k (only w# and w*).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-05-29 02:24:20	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner
2010-05-29 02:24:20	vstinner	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2010-05-29 02:24:18	vstinner	link	issue8850 messages
2010-05-29 02:24:18	vstinner	create