From: "Scott Schwartz" <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] snprint(), getfields() specification
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:11:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010510051144.209.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
The getfields() manpage says,
If there are more than maxargs fields, only the first maxargs
fields will be set.
...
Getfields return the number of tokens processed.
snprint() says something similar.
In both cases, if the limit is too small, there's no way to find out
how much space you actually needed. Unix snprintf returns that value;
compare with the limit to know if you need to allocate more space,
or emit an error, or just use what you got.
I think we might be better off adopting that convention.
next reply other threads:[~2001-05-10 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-10 5:11 Scott Schwartz [this message]
2001-05-10 13:56 rob pike
2001-05-10 14:25 ` Greg Hudson
2001-05-10 14:44 ` William Josephson
2001-05-10 14:30 rob pike
2001-05-11 8:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-14 8:36 ` David Rubin
[not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-05-10 14:59 ` rob pike
2001-05-10 16:42 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-05-10 18:13 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-05-10 21:38 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-11 6:51 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-05-10 16:56 rob pike
2001-05-10 17:40 erik quanstrom
2001-05-10 17:51 forsyth
2001-05-10 17:56 rob pike
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