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Subject: Re: WuFTPD: Providing *remote* root since at least1994
From: Kenn Humborg (kennBLUETREE.IE)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 07:00:05 CDT

> > Unless it at the same time returns an error, which I presume most do
> > when they have to truncate the result. In case of error it can and
> > should be expected that the result is a bit undefined..
> >
> > I have so far seen four alternatives:
> >
> > a) Returns -1 and raw truncate without \0
> >
> > b) Returns -1 and truncate with a \0
[...]
> Can you please list the vendors who have the incorrect behaviours you
> described in (a) and (b) so that we can properly bitch at them?

Microsoft Visual C 5.0 sp3 does (a).

In fairness, their function is _snprintf rather than snprintf
so doesn't strictly need to follow a spec.

Kenn