printf behaviour with illegal or malformed format string

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <84dead720512120816t7c907c3aq9add32c5dc8b9a38 at mail.gmail.com>, Joseph Koshy writes:

>Why not just print the warning for both cases, and
>stop interpreting the format string any further.
>
>What do we gain by having a uid 0 process dump core?

I'm not very keen on producing wrong output from uid0 programs without
giving the programmer a way to handle the problem correctly.


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