From: Wayne Davison <wayne@opencoder.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:51:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compat/vsnprintf.c for systems that returns -1 on maxsize reached
Message-ID: <20080304235131.GA27590@herod.dreamhost.com>
In-Reply-To: <47CD78C9.80003@viscovery.net>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> But there is also another complication: The size parameter of the system's
> vsnprintf must not count the trailing NUL, i.e. the buffer must actually
> have space for one extra byte, whereas the POSIX version must count NUL.

FYI, rsync's configure script has a check for both those problems.  It
sets HAVE_C99_VSNPRINTF if vsnprintf() works right.  If that fails,
rsync uses its own lib/snprintf.c implementation (that I believe comes
from Samba).  That file could be included in git, if desired.

..wayne..