snprintf

[James Morrison]

 Hello,
        I've noticed that on GNU/Hurd snprintf doesn't work if
the expanded template exceeds the size given.

eg
        char limited[5];
        snprintf(limited,5,"12345");

On GNU/Linux with libio snprintf sets limited to "1234" and returns
5.

This same code on GNU/Hurd with stdio sets limited[0] to '\0'
but does not touch any other characters.  snprintf returns 5
on GNU/Hurd as well.

If the template string is extended the results say the same with the
return value changing appropriatly. snprintf works fine on GNU/Hurd
if the resulting string is less than maxsize passed to snprintf.

=====
James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone refering this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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