The normal snprintf function tells you how many characters would have been
appended to a buffer if it was large enough. For Suspend2, we want to know
how many characters were actually added. This variant of the routine does
that.
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <[email protected]>
include/linux/kernel.h | 2 ++
lib/vsprintf.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h
index f4fc576..5e99865 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ extern int vsprintf(char *buf, const cha
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 0)));
extern int snprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char * fmt, ...)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 4)));
+extern int snprintf_used(char *buffer, int buffer_size,
+ const char *fmt, ...);
extern int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
__attribute__ ((format (printf, 3, 0)));
extern int scnprintf(char * buf, size_t size, const char * fmt, ...)
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index b07db5c..fccee2c 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -236,6 +236,29 @@ static char * number(char * buf, char *
return buf;
}
+/*
+ * vsnprintf_used
+ *
+ * Functionality : Print a string with parameters to a buffer of a
+ * limited size. Unlike vsnprintf, we return the number
+ * of bytes actually put in the buffer, not the number
+ * that would have been put in if it was big enough.
+ */
+int snprintf_used(char *buffer, int buffer_size, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+ int result;
+ va_list args;
+
+ if (!buffer_size)
+ return 0;
+
+ va_start(args, fmt);
+ result = vsnprintf(buffer, buffer_size, fmt, args);
+ va_end(args);
+
+ return result > buffer_size ? buffer_size : result;
+}
+
/**
* vsnprintf - Format a string and place it in a buffer
* @buf: The buffer to place the result into
--
Nigel Cunningham nigel at suspend2 dot net
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