Re: [idea] request_module(const char *fmt, ...);

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 10:16:51 EST

Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> writes:

|> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
|> > Another thing being that yes, it would be nice to have printf-like _real_
|> > request_module(). The only thing to watch for is literal module name
|> > passing - if you know that name will never contain % you are fine,
|> > otherwise you'll need to go for "%s",name.
|>
|> I thought va_start/va_end magic handles that automatically, i.e. if
|> sprintf(buf, "%s", "hello") does the same as sprintf(buf, "hello") then
|> our new request_module() should work fine as well.

Unless "hello" is "h%ell%o", or some non-literal.

Andreas. 

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