Re: Linux 2.4.6-ac5

[Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>]

At 1:27 AM +1000 2001-07-17, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Also, my manpage says that vsnprintf should return -1
>if it truncated the output.  Your implementation
>doesn't do that, but trivially could.

My manpage says:

>Return value
>        These  functions  return  the number of characters printed
>        (not including the trailing `\0' used  to  end  output  to
>        strings).   snprintf  and vsnprintf do not write more than
>        size bytes (including the trailing '\0'), and return -1 if
>        the  output  was truncated due to this limit.  (Thus until
>        glibc 2.0.6. Since glibc 2.1 these  functions  follow  the
>        C99  standard and return the number of characters (exclud-
>        ing the trailing '\0') which would have  been  written  to
>        the final string if enough space had been available.)
>

-- 
/Jonathan Lundell.