Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 20:27:17 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c Message-ID: <200101052027.f05KRHi48955@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:44:29 GMT." <20010105194429.N85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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> 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.
Except that the paragraph that says
These functions return the number of characters printed (not including
the trailing `\0' used to end output to strings).
is wrong :-/
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