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diff --git a/src/common.c b/src/common.c
index d617832c..d963efa5 100644
--- a/src/common.c
+++ b/src/common.c
@@ -86,6 +86,47 @@ int ssnprintf (char *dest, size_t n, const char *format, ...)
 	return (ret);
 } /* int ssnprintf */
 
+char *ssnprintf_alloc (char const *format, ...) /* {{{ */
+{
+	char static_buffer[1024] = "";
+	char *alloc_buffer;
+	size_t alloc_buffer_size;
+	int status;
+	va_list ap;
+
+	/* Try printing into the static buffer. In many cases it will be
+	 * sufficiently large and we can simply return a strdup() of this
+	 * buffer. */
+	va_start (ap, format);
+	status = vsnprintf (static_buffer, sizeof (static_buffer), format, ap);
+	va_end (ap);
+	if (status < 0)
+		return (NULL);
+
+	/* "status" does not include the null byte. */
+	alloc_buffer_size = (size_t) (status + 1);
+	if (alloc_buffer_size <= sizeof (static_buffer))
+		return (strdup (static_buffer));
+
+	/* Allocate a buffer large enough to hold the string. */
+	alloc_buffer = malloc (alloc_buffer_size);
+	if (alloc_buffer == NULL)
+		return (NULL);
+	memset (alloc_buffer, 0, alloc_buffer_size);
+
+	/* Print again into this new buffer. */
+	va_start (ap, format);
+	status = vsnprintf (alloc_buffer, alloc_buffer_size, format, ap);
+	va_end (ap);
+	if (status < 0)
+	{
+		sfree (alloc_buffer);
+		return (NULL);
+	}
+
+	return (alloc_buffer);
+} /* }}} char *ssnprintf_alloc */
+
 char *sstrdup (const char *s)
 {
 	char *r;
@@ -1213,18 +1254,25 @@ int walk_directory (const char *dir, dirwalk_callback_f callback,
 	return (0);
 }
 
-int read_file_contents (const char *filename, char *buf, int bufsize)
+ssize_t read_file_contents (const char *filename, char *buf, size_t bufsize)
 {
 	FILE *fh;
-	int n;
+	ssize_t ret;
 
-	if ((fh = fopen (filename, "r")) == NULL)
-		return -1;
+	fh = fopen (filename, "r");
+	if (fh == NULL)
+		return (-1);
 
-	n = fread(buf, 1, bufsize, fh);
-	fclose(fh);
+	ret = (ssize_t) fread (buf, 1, bufsize, fh);
+	if ((ret == 0) && (ferror (fh) != 0))
+	{
+		ERROR ("read_file_contents: Reading file \"%s\" failed.",
+				filename);
+		ret = -1;
+	}
 
-	return n;
+	fclose(fh);
+	return (ret);
 }
 
 counter_t counter_diff (counter_t old_value, counter_t new_value)