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From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] snprint(), getfields() specification
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:56:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010510135659.3B4A8199F0@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

Really?  Unix sprintf tells you what it printed and snprintf tells you
what it *might* have printed?  That's a scary inconsistency.

-rob



             reply	other threads:[~2001-05-10 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-10 13:56 rob pike [this message]
2001-05-10 14:25 ` Greg Hudson
2001-05-10 14:44   ` William Josephson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-10 17:56 rob pike
2001-05-10 17:51 forsyth
2001-05-10 17:40 erik quanstrom
2001-05-10 16:56 rob pike
     [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 14:30 rob pike
2001-05-11  8:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-14  8:36 ` David Rubin
2001-05-10  5:11 Scott Schwartz

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