Subject: Re: snprintf returns? [was Re: CVS commit: src/sys]
To: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/24/2004 20:31:05
In message <20040425014334.GA24115@jodi.nimenees.,
com>Eric Haszlakiewicz writes:
>On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 02:27:28PM +0200, Klaus Klein wrote:
>	huh?  man snprintf, 3rd paragraph of the description:

... and you want snprintf(9), not snprintf(3).  (mutatis mutandis, for
the corresponding implementations).

Technically, the kernel is a freestanding, non-hosted C environment;
if [dim] memory serves, that means we can make s[n]printf(9) behave
differently than s[n]printf(3) --- should we choose to do so.

I'm sure Klaus knows the chapter and verse.