Re: [PATCH] perf: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGV

[Ingo Molnar]

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...]
> 
> When designing APIs it is of utmost importance how average 
> developers intuitively *think* it works - not how the designer 
> thinks it should work ... Any severe mismatch between the two 
> is a serious design FAIL that should not be repeated in new 
> code.

Btw., I'm not picking on you, in the last 15 years I have added 
my own sad share of brown paperbag API mis-designs to the Linux 
kernel - most [but not all] of which could fortunately be fixed 
within the kernel.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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