logger(1) hiccups on % signs

[Roy Smith]

In article <4653 at fluke.COM> news at tc.fluke.COM (UNIX Network News) writes:
>         Change 
>             syslog(pri, buf);
>         to  
>             syslog(pri, "%s", buf);

	This should go on the list of "common insidious bugs" and a warning
be included in the man page for every printf and printf-like routine.  Didn't
I see essentially the same fix for bnews a while ago?  As I remember, it made
entries in a log file by doing
	
	printf (article_id)

instead of

	printf ("%s", article_id);

and went off the deep end when article ids with %'s in them started showing
up (probably from an andrew system).
-- 
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Public Health Research Institute
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