Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove all uses of printf's %n

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All users of %n are calculating padding size when using seq_file, so
> instead use the new last_len member for discovering the length of the
> written strings.

Would it make sense to provide a seq_pad(...) function instead, to avoid
exposing more seq_file internals to its callers?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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