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authorPaul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-06-25 13:52:31 +0000
committerPaul Janzen <pjanzen@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-06-25 13:52:31 +0000
commitf8067c8898864c53428a28e32566fbad40cd1765 (patch)
tree8f0af56b5f86019d2ea970f3e91ec837d7650fb6 /lib
parent0473afa6204a870a78257e976d6218f13d1858fd (diff)
correct return values
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdio/printf.325
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
index ce49b321ecc..100c89e0b45 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: printf.3,v 1.27 2000/04/25 15:15:10 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: printf.3,v 1.28 2000/06/25 13:52:30 pjanzen Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -122,7 +122,18 @@ are converted for output.
These functions return the number of characters printed
(not including the trailing
.Ql \e0
-used to end output to strings).
+used to end output to strings),
+except for
+.Fn snprintf
+and
+.Fn vsnprintf ,
+which return the number of characters that would have been printed if the
+.Fa size
+were unlimited
+.Po
+again, not including the final
+.Ql \e0
+.Pc .
.Pp
.Fn asprintf
and
@@ -138,16 +149,6 @@ will return \-1 and set
.Fa ret
to be a null pointer.
.Pp
-If
-.Fn asprintf
-or
-.Fn vasprintf
-are given a
-.Fa size
-of 0, they set
-.Fa ret
-to be a null pointer.
-.Pp
.Fn snprintf
and
.Fn vsnprintf