FTBFS if "-Werror=format-security" flag is used

[Rich Megginson]

On 12/09/2013 03:33 PM, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 09:21 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>> printf(string) is legitimate C, forcing "printf("%s", string) is just 
>> silly.
>>
> My apologies for being repetitive, but the original point is that 
> printf(string) is insecure unless you can guarantee that you control 
> 'string' now and forever. Also,  %s is the format for printing 
> strings, so I just can't agree that coding printf("%s", string) is silly.

Silly is not the right word.  printf("%s", string) is inefficient. In 
this case, it would be better to use puts/fputs.

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