/* test-snprintf - Check whether snprintf allows doubly used strings. Copyright (C) 2020-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Inetutils. GNU Inetutils is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Inetutils is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see `http://www.gnu.org/licenses/'. */ /* Written by Mats Erik Andersson. */ /* * It is not in violation of POSIX, but implementations of snprintf() * differ in their ability to handle a situation where the target string * to be produced by snprintf() is at the same time providing data, which * are to be passed through the format string, and to be part of the new * resulting string. The different BSD unices, as well as OpenSolaris, * are known to correctly handle this, whereas glibc is known to fail. * * This test issues a warning that non-portable behaviour is possible, * should the program detect a discrepancy on this system. If the * program detects the macro PACKAGE to have value "inetutils", then * get attention with the exit value 77, to fit with our testing * frame work. * * When the environment variable VERBOSE is defined, an encouraging * message is issued also in the presence of an enhanced implementation * of snprintf(). */ #include #include #include #include #define MESSAGE "try a fool" #define WRONG_MESSAGE "fool" int main (void) { int err = 0; char msg[sizeof (MESSAGE)] = "try a "; snprintf (msg, sizeof (msg), "%s%s", msg, WRONG_MESSAGE); if (!strcmp (msg, WRONG_MESSAGE)) { printf ("Warning! This implementation of snprintf() is not able\n" "to handle string variables that appear as target and at the\n" "same time as source. This might be a portability issue!\n"); #ifdef PACKAGE if (!strcmp (PACKAGE, "inetutils")) err = 77; #endif } else if (getenv ("VERBOSE")) { printf ("The present implementation of snprintf() allows the same\n" "string to act as target as well as source. Good news!\n"); } /* Always return successfully, as we are only producing a reminder, rather than a show stopper. */ return err; }