Re: [PATCH 1/2] string: Add stracpy and stracpy_pad mechanisms

Rasmus Villemoes
2019-07-24T13:09:16Z

On 24/07/2019 14.05, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>

> Beware that snprintf(), per C standard, is supposed to return the
> length of the formatted string, regarless of the size of the
> destination buffer.
>
> So encouraging developper to write something like code below because
> snprintf() in kernel behave in a non-standard way,

The kernel's snprintf() does not behave in a non-standard way, at least
not with respect to its return value. It doesn't support %n or floating
point, of course, and there are some quirks regarding precision (see
lib/test_printf.c for details).

There's the non-standard scnprintf() for getting the length of the
formatted string, which can safely be used in an append loop. Or one can
use the seq_buf API.

Rasmus