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From: jhh@ihldt.UUCP (John Haller)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: stdio.h hacker in agony
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Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 17:49:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  3 17:49:08 1984
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sprintf is supposed to return the number of characters put in
the array, except the null byte at the end.  Changing to this breaks
many programs which depend on sprintf returning the array passed
to it.  Another System V/4.x BSD incompatibility.

			John Haller