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

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Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2012 08:52:47 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@...driver.com>
Cc:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, paulus@...ba.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, dsahern@...il.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com, emunson@...bm.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGV


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> 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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