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Date:      Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:14:03 -0600
From:      "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        keramida@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, des@ofug.org, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/ln & WARNS=5 
Message-ID:  <200207151514.g6FFE3BI007055@xerxes.courtesan.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:04:20 MDT." <20020715.090420.83279095.imp@bsdimp.com> 
References:  <xzpele59w21.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020715202126.S40071-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020715111436.GD50130@hades.hell.gr> <20020715.090420.83279095.imp@bsdimp.com> 

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In message <20020715.090420.83279095.imp@bsdimp.com>
	so spake "M. Warner Losh" (imp):

> snprintf never returns a negative number.  It always returns the
> number of characters that it would have used to make the string.

Actually, on Solaris snprintf can return -1 due to an incorrect
locale-specific format string, although this does not appear to
be documented.

And of course, Single Unix used to specify that -1 was returned
when out of space.

If you are trying for "extreme portability" you might care.

 - todd

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