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From: William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] fd2path(2)
Date: Mon,  5 May 2003 09:00:03 -0700
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why not make the return value of fd2path() similar to SUSv3's snprintf()?
that is, return the length of the logical string. i've read a few archived
posts on this. one was to make the return value the remainder of the logical
length and the buffer length. another pointed out that inferno just returned
a malloc'd string on its own.

but, why force superfluous use of strlen()? the semantics of snprintf() seem
quite reasonable. in fact, i can't really figure out a down side... anybody?

- Bill