From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200105101813.TAA09742@localhost.localdomain> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] snprint(), getfields() specification In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 May 2001 10:59:41 EDT." <20010510145944.45DA619A01@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Steve Kilbane Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:13:10 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e4cfa70-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I'd say adopt the other UNIX convention, and return -1. The arguments aren't "right" - insufficient space - so do nothing. It moves the speculative behaviour onto the user. steve