[PATCH] lib/util: Add optional format argument to timeval_str_buf()

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:05:40PM +1100, Martin Schwenke wrote:
> > Hmm. Right now the timeval_str_buf function can be assumed to never fail,
> > because timeval_buf is large enough. If we now add a format argument,
> > it could easily overflow unnoticed. Is that what we want?
> 
> No.  Thanks for picking that up.  You'd have to be trying hard to
> overflow 128 byte of time string... but my code should have been
> better... :-)
> 
> I'd be happy if it truncated instead of overflowing.  However,
> strftime(3) doesn't provide such an option - it returns 0 and output
> is undefined on potential overflow.

What is your actual use case of this?

Thanks,

Volker

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