OK, scratch that.

Since the manpage is confusinging me I wrote this to get insight
in what happens:

% cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int
main(void)
{
int ret;
int max = 6;
char returnstring1[8] = "yadadad";
char returnstring2[6] = "yadad";
char returnstring3[4] = "yad";
char returnstring4[2] = "y";

printf("strlen(returnstring1) = %i \n", strlen(returnstring1));
printf("strlen(returnstring2) = %i \n", strlen(returnstring2));
printf("strlen(returnstring3) = %i \n", strlen(returnstring3));
printf("strlen(returnstring4) = %i \n", strlen(returnstring4));

ret = snprintf(returnstring1, max, "%s%s", "foo", "bar");
printf("ret = %i, returnstring1 = %s, lenght = %i\n", ret, returnstring1, strlen(returnstring1));

ret = snprintf(returnstring2, max, "%s%s", "foo", "bar");
printf("ret = %i, returnstring2 = %s, lenght = %i\n", ret, returnstring2, strlen(returnstring2));

ret = snprintf(returnstring3, max, "%s%s", "foo", "bar");
printf("ret = %i, returnstring3 = %s, lenght = %i\n", ret, returnstring3, strlen(returnstring3));

ret = snprintf(returnstring4, max, "%s%s", "foo", "bar");
printf("ret = %i, returnstring4 = %s, lenght = %i\n", ret, returnstring4, strlen(returnstring4));

return 0;
}

So if you are not so sure what the result will be, please write
down what you think it will be and only then compile and see what
it does.

If you do know what happens, /me bows for you in awe, and please
tell me why it does. Because it doesn't make sense to me. I
expected really something different.



# Han