Re: [patch] kernel events layer

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Sat Jul 24 2004 - 01:55:45 EST


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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