Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:53:01 -0700 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [patch] kernel events layer |
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Keith wrote: > Never use the return value from snprintf to work out the next buffer > position, it is not reliable when the data is truncated.
That's why Juergen Quade added scnprintf and vscnprintf to lib/vsprintf.c:
* If you want to have the exact * number of characters written into @buf as return value * (not including the trailing '\0'), use vscnprintf.
Andrew wrote: > A single snprintf here would suit.
As Robert said ... Doh!
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