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On Mon, 2019-12-02 at 08:07 -0800, Eric Norum via Core-talk wrote:
> Others have dealt with the original question, but I’d like to add a followup.
> 
> Conversion strings like the one shown in the original message are unsafe and should never be used.  They can lead to buffer overflows and weird IOC behaviour.
> 

Have you tested that this leads to buffer overflows? I think I automatically limit the format to the buffer size (here
NELM).

Dirk

> The capacity of the destination buffer should always be specified.  Here, from the ASYN streamSCPI template, are the ’short’ and ‘long’ string versions of records to read SCPI identification strings:
> 
> > record(stringin, "$(P)$(R)IDN")
> > {
> >     field(DESC, "SCPI identification string")
> >     field(DTYP, "stream")
> >     field(INP,  "@dev_NAME_.proto getIDN(39) $(PORT) $(A)")
> >     field(PINI, "YES")
> > }
> > record(waveform, "$(P)$(R)IDNwf")
> > {
> >     field(DESC, "SCPI identification string")
> >     field(DTYP, "stream")
> >     field(INP,  "@dev_NAME_.proto getIDN(199) $(PORT) $(A)")
> >     field(PINI, "YES")
> >     field(FTVL, "CHAR")
> >     field(NELM, "200")
> > }
> > 
> > 
> > getIDN {
> >     out "*IDN?";
> >     in "%\$1[^\r\n]";
> >     ExtraInput = Ignore;
> > }
> 
> 
> > On Nov 29, 2019, at 12:11 PM, dmnr infn via Tech-talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > I have a .db e .proto made in this way:
> > 
> > .db
> > record(lsi, "RF:getString")
> > {
> >     field(DESC, "String more than 40 chars")
> >     field(SIZV, "80")
> >     field(INP, "@MDO.proto getString L0")
> >     field(SCAN, ".2 second")
> > }
> > 
> > .proto
> > getString {
> >     out "STT?";
> >     in "%s";
> > }
> > 
> > I want to get a String that is more than 40 characters, and I use a lsi record but I got always 40 chars.
> > There is something wrong in my code?
> > Thank you
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Eric Norum
> [email protected]
> “Ah, the chance to be pedantic first thing on a Monday morning — what a great way to start the week."
> 

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