DN> ISO will soon to introducing a new interface to the v?printf() family 
DN> called v?nprintf(), where you can specify the destination buffer size and 
DN> therefore avoid buffer overflow - something that you can only guard against 
DN> currently by defining large buffers. 

You can also guard against it by doing things like %30s to make
sure you don't put more than 30 characters of the string into
the buffer.  Not relevant to something like vfprintf() anyway
though.  BFN.  Paul.
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