ioctl() forever?
ioctl() forever?
Posted Jun 9, 2022 0:53 UTC (Thu) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: ioctl() forever? by atnot
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Meh, snprintf isn't the kernel's fault, it's C's fault for being terrible at finagling strings. Stringly-typed interfaces are bad because they are difficult or impossible to validate, not because snprintf is painful.
Posted Jun 9, 2022 1:35 UTC (Thu)
by atnot (subscriber, #124910)
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ioctl() forever?
This wasn't at all meant to be a dig at snprintf(), feel free to insert your preferred mechanism. I just don't think string formatting is something that should be regularly involved at the very core of OS APIs at all, even if C's string handling wasn't as uniquely terrible as it is. Although that fact doesn't help of course.