Re: bin/ln & WARNS=5

In message <[email protected]>
	so spake "M. Warner Losh" (imp):

> snprintf never returns a negative number.  It always returns the
> number of characters that it would have used to make the string.

Actually, on Solaris snprintf can return -1 due to an incorrect
locale-specific format string, although this does not appear to
be documented.

And of course, Single Unix used to specify that -1 was returned
when out of space.

If you are trying for "extreme portability" you might care.

 - todd

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