[PATCH] proposal to display uname/gname instead of uid/gid in tar

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 16:38:19 UTC 2006


Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:24:12PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:

>> has all their own itoa function.
>>
>> All of those should probably be collected in one single in libbb, but
>> that was not really what I was trying to solve right now.
> 
> The C library has an "itoa" function. It's called snprintf.

Its a wrapper to snprintf so you don't need to allocate a buffer (and
make the code more readable?)

But after a second thought, I think you are right. Its better to
allocate another temp buffer and use snprintf.

I'll post another patch later. Need to do other things right now.

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Natanael Copa



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