From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 5 15: 0:19 2001 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 15:00:15 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A28D37B400; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:00:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f05N03b57462; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:00:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101052300.f05N03b57462@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Somers Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c Cc: Ben Smithurst , Matt Dillon , Chris Faulhaber , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:44:21 GMT." <200101052144.f05LiLi49413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200101052144.f05LiLi49413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:00:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200101052144.f05LiLi49413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: : Unless you're interpreting ``printed'' to mean ``that would be : written to the buffer if ``size'' is sufficient''.... That's what it means. It is clear from the next paragraph where it differentiates between the number of characters printed, and the number writtent o the buffer. : I think a lot of people are guilty of reading man pages 'till they : get the information they're looking for and then quitting. Then, with all due respect, they are asking for trouble. If you don't read the whole thing, you deserve to have bad things happen to you. There's no way around that. : > It becomes clear. However, having said that, we likely should use the : > wording from the standard. It is much easier to follow. : : Yes. I agree. I'm working on some patches to include this. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message