[Nagiosplug-devel] 1.3.0

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On 28 Sep 2002, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 01:26, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:23, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > > 
> > > Karl
> > > 
> > > regarding sprintf and snprintf
> > > 
> > > Earlier there was post (Aug 25 - nagios-devel) about using snprintf from
> > > the samba distribution because it handled floats whereas the current one
> > > does not.
> > > 
> > > Don't know if that affects the plugins as well.
> > 
> > Always looking for a better snprintf...
> > 
> > We should look into it, it does look like the implementaion in the
> > plugins has the have problem.
> > 
> > I might be able to do that sometime over the weekend.
> 
> I haven't fully integrated it yet, but I did download it.
> 
> Seems very worthwhile, as it also includes asprintf, which basically
> does what my ssprintf does. Except sambe gets far more auditing than I
> do.
> 
> I strongly feel that a writing a simple C plugin should not need you to
> be a memory allocation guru. That was what I tried to do with ssprintf.
> asprintf does it better. So I'm going to try hooking the new sfprintf.c
> into the configure/build. Then the sprintf calls that should be replaced
> can call asprintf with exactly the same syntax.
> 
> Eventually, we can stop using my ssprintf entirely, and delete it!
> 

Ok - another item for cleanup before the 1.4 relase :)

If you get a chance to commit the changes, I try and use them for the 
fixes in check_snmp as well.


-- 
-sg