Reinhard, since I was curious as well, I've been looking at the code
yesterday: The target string is most of the time a char[6] (the function
is called in several places, I'm not sure if I've found all of them).
Nonetheless I'd prefer a patch by upstream as well.
Cheers,
Stefan.
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