netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] lib: utils: introduce scnprintf

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Message-ID: <5e070719-260e-4219-a972-82db360ac847@suse.de>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 11:37:43 +0300
From: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@...e.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
 Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com>
Cc: dsahern@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] lib: utils: introduce scnprintf



On 2/9/24 19:33, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri,  9 Feb 2024 04:36:18 -0500
> Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> The function is similar to the standard snprintf but
>> returns the number of characters actually written to @buf
>> argument excluding the trailing '\0'
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Denis Kirjanov <dkirjanov@...e.de>
>> ---
> 
> I don't understand, why not use snprintf in ifstat?
> None of the cases in patch 2 care about the return value length.
Hi Stephen,

My intention is just use one safe version of the string formatting function.
I'm going to convert other places as well.