Tom Hughes wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>           Leopold Toetsch (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It's probably best to do whatever C99 does, which I think is the same
> as what glibc does, namely to return the amount of space that would be
> needed to avoid truncation if the result is truncated.


Yep, exactly this, giving the caller a chance, to allocate more space 
and retry.


> Tom

leo



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