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From: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Safe string formatting in the kernel
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:03:21PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> I've implemented a set of functions for performing safe string
> formatting in the kernel, based on an initial idea (and design) by
> Poul-Henning.

Can you please elaborate on what this is useful for and why we need it?
I skimmed through the patch, but the answer didn't jump out at me.

Jason


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