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| author | gshapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-30 23:47:14 +0000 |
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| committer | gshapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-30 23:47:14 +0000 |
| commit | 4ae5417dae5dc261d8bf79aa903231d91a8a4716 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a1921e1e4caf955fa4762409554864adc519158 /lib | |
| parent | ff6bb62be30b00d95360db29311f4fa48201c308 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-4ae5417dae5dc261d8bf79aa903231d91a8a4716.zip FreeBSD-src-4ae5417dae5dc261d8bf79aa903231d91a8a4716.tar.gz | |
Correct the documentation for snprintf() and vsprintf() which actually
return the number of characters that would have been in the new string.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
MFC after: 3 days
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 index 590c1c0..722f351 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 @@ -118,7 +118,18 @@ These functions return the number of characters printed (not including the trailing .Ql \e0 -used to end output to strings). +used to end output to strings), +except for +.Fn snprintf +and +.Fn vsnprintf , +which return the number of characters that would have been printed if the +.Fa size +were unlimited +.Po +again, not including the final +.Ql \e0 +.Pc . .Pp .Fn Asprintf and |
