vsnprintf patch

[Adrian Reber]

When using the snprintf function from the kernel the length returned is
not the length written:

len = snprintf(test,1,"BLA 1"); 

len is 5 although test is "B"

the patch below fixes the symptom, but I am not sure if this is the real
solution for this problem.


--- linux-2.6.0-test3.orig/lib/vsprintf.c       2003-08-09 06:40:52.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test3/lib/vsprintf.c    2003-08-13 13:41:15.000000000 +0200
@@ -455,7 +455,10 @@
        /* the trailing null byte doesn't count towards the total
        * ++str;
        */
-       return str-buf;
+       if (str-buf > size)
+               return size;
+       else
+               return str-buf;
 }
 
 /**



		Adrian
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