[reSIProcate] Issue compiling Security.cxx

[Daniel Pocock]

On 09/09/13 20:03, Adam Roach wrote:
> On 9/9/13 11:23, Dario Bozzali wrote:
>>
>> I got the latest trunk revision of Resiprocate repository (10430),
>> but I'm facing an issue while compiling Security.cxx using Visual
>> Studio 2005.
>>
>> In particular the error that I obtain is the following one:
>>
>> 1>.\ssl\Security.cxx(177) : error C3861: 'snprintf': identifier not found
>>
>> I think that it could be necessary to use _snprintf instead of
>> snprintf function, for example using a define like in the excerpt of
>> code that I reported below.
>>
>
> The problem here is that snprintf() guarantees null termination, while
> Windows' _snprintf() does not (which can lead to some really nasty
> security bugs). Because of this flaw, the general guidance that I
> offer is that no one should ever use use Windows' _snprintf() -- it's
> fundamentally broken.
>
> I think what you really need to do is define a new function that wraps
> _snprintf_s, with a "count" argument set to "_TRUNCATE".


I just added one potential solution into rutil/compat.hxx

Can you try updating to r10434 and test it?


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