On Aug 24, 2014 1:41 PM, "Dave Hansen" <dave@sr71.net> wrote:
>
> Let's say there is 1 "buf_left" and I attempt a 100-byte snprintf().
> Won't snprintf() return 1, and buf_written will then equal buf_len?

No. snprintf() returns turn number of bytes it *would* write, if i it
wasn't truncated. That's so that people can reallocate a buffer of
sufficient size and just try again.

     Linus