From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 5 11:44:41 2001 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 11:44:38 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CCE37B6AE; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=root) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Ecmt-0003zC-00; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:44:31 +0000 Received: (from ben@localhost) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f05JiUL49038; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:44:30 GMT (envelope-from ben) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:44:29 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Matt Dillon Cc: Chris Faulhaber , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c Message-ID: <20010105194429.N85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200101050206.f0526rB87964@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010105162917.K85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20010105120633.B66833@peitho.fxp.org> <20010105184921.M85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <200101051918.f05JINQ02516@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101051918.f05JINQ02516@earth.backplane.com> Sender: ben@scientia.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > :I don't agree with that, since the other functions return the number of > :characters printed as well. > > Yes, but not portably. The ANSI standard tried to standardize it but > the reality is that only snprintf()'s return value is portable. If you > try to use the return value from other functions as a count, your code > won't be portable. asprintf() *might* be portable too, but nothing else. Oh hell. In that case I'll probably just make the paragraph about snprintf's return value clearer and not touch anything else. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message