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To: Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de>
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Subject: Re: vsnprintf patch
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Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> writes:

|> When using the snprintf function from the kernel the length returned is
|> not the length written:
|> 
|> len = snprintf(test,1,"BLA 1"); 
|> 
|> len is 5 although test is "B"

Exactly how it should be.

|> the patch below fixes the symptom, but I am not sure if this is the real
|> solution for this problem.

There is no problem here.

Andreas.

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