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authormillert <millert@openbsd.org>2015-10-13 12:25:04 +0000
committermillert <millert@openbsd.org>2015-10-13 12:25:04 +0000
commit05bac98d8ef1e3b8516c4401abd24c49da6105f3 (patch)
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parentAdd a helper for writing the message to simplify the code. (diff)
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Sync printf family return value with ISO C which specifies that
these functions return a negative value on failure. OK doug@ deraadt@
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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
index 6b724da8687..e94ccf44267 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: printf.3,v 1.73 2015/06/03 16:26:04 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: printf.3,v 1.74 2015/10/13 12:25:04 millert Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)printf.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 3 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 13 2015 $
.Dt PRINTF 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ a field; if the result of a conversion is wider than the field width, the
field is expanded to contain the conversion result.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
For all these functions if an output or encoding error occurs, a value
-of \-1 is returned.
+less than 0 is returned.
.Pp
The
.Fn printf ,