On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 15:30 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> On 09/07/2020 15.26, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 14:56 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
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> > > On Jul 09 2020, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a format (or other function) that lets me
> > > > print strings without an \0 terminator using an explicit length arg
> > > > instead?
> > >
> > > Use the precision.
> >
> > Looking at that now but have a hard time figuring how to use it, can you
> > give me an example?
>
> Exactly as you'd do in userspace:
>
> printf("%.*s\n", len, buf)
>
> Of course, vsnprintf() will still stop if it encounters a nul byte
> within those first len bytes in buf. And you need len to have type int,
> so you may need a cast if you have a size_t or ssize_t or whatnot.
Thanks, this did the trick :)
