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Date:      Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:00:02 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c 
Message-ID:  <200101052300.f05N03b57462@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 21:44:21 GMT." <200101052144.f05LiLi49413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> 
References:  <200101052144.f05LiLi49413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>  

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In message <200101052144.f05LiLi49413@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian
Somers writes: 
: Unless you're interpreting ``printed'' to mean ``that would be 
: written to the buffer if ``size'' is sufficient''....

That's what it means.  It is clear from the next paragraph where it
differentiates between the number of characters printed, and the
number writtent o the buffer.

: I think a lot of people are guilty of reading man pages 'till they 
: get the information they're looking for and then quitting.

Then, with all due respect, they are asking for trouble.  If you don't 
read the whole thing, you deserve to have bad things happen to you.
There's no way around that.

: > It becomes clear.  However, having said that, we likely should use the
: > wording from the standard.  It is much easier to follow.
: 
: Yes.  I agree.

I'm working on some patches to include this.

Warner


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