Re: [PATCH] fixes for apr_vformatter and apr_snprintf

At 10:17 AM +0300 7/11/02, Nuutti Kotivuori wrote:
>But back to the subject at hand.
>
>I'm a bit uncertain _how_ am I supposed to be using apr_snprintf so
>code doesn't break the next time it's behaviour changes? I'm a bit on
>a foul mood here, sorry, but this was supposed to be just a minor
>checkup to see if the return value included the nul-byte or not.
>
>So, if I want the length, without including the nul-byte - I need to
>compare the return value against the buffer length I passed in, and
>substract one if they are equal? I'd like to _depend_ on something
>working this way, if I do it this way.
>

Hmmm... In the current code, if they are equal then it means either
it fully fit the buffer or was truncated. So yes. Recall that ap(r)_snprintf()
copies at most size-1, so the length of the returned string can only
be a maximum of size-1.

I agree it looks like we're compromising vformatter for a bug in
apr_psprintf...

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