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| author | Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> | 2025-11-03 10:09:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> | 2025-11-03 18:39:29 +0100 |
| commit | 2e448748146dd37b178925f17d3c1f47298a7542 (patch) | |
| tree | 57694a1466f55a1f529d0019045b4e8108034626 /lib/vsprintf.c | |
| parent | 67e1b0052f6bb82be84e30a5af7d27f29533a83b (diff) | |
| download | tip-2e448748146dd37b178925f17d3c1f47298a7542.tar.gz | |
lib/vsprintf: Improve vsprintf + sprintf function comments
Clarify that the return values of vsprintf() and sprintf() exclude the
trailing NUL character.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103090913.2066-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/vsprintf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/vsprintf.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index eb0cb11d0d126f..e49f350ee549de 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -3054,8 +3054,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(scnprintf); * @fmt: The format string to use * @args: Arguments for the format string * - * The function returns the number of characters written - * into @buf. Use vsnprintf() or vscnprintf() in order to avoid + * The return value is the number of characters written into @buf not including + * the trailing '\0'. Use vsnprintf() or vscnprintf() in order to avoid * buffer overflows. * * If you're not already dealing with a va_list consider using sprintf(). @@ -3074,8 +3074,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vsprintf); * @fmt: The format string to use * @...: Arguments for the format string * - * The function returns the number of characters written - * into @buf. Use snprintf() or scnprintf() in order to avoid + * The return value is the number of characters written into @buf not including + * the trailing '\0'. Use snprintf() or scnprintf() in order to avoid * buffer overflows. * * See the vsnprintf() documentation for format string extensions over C99. |