From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: ISO "C" violation.
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 17:32:06 GMT
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On 9 Feb 1997 14:49:39 GMT, nxk3 AT dante DOT student DOT cwru DOT edu (Natarajan
Krishnaswami) wrote:

>I know it's tacky to follow up to my own post, but I just looked at the 
>libc.inf description of fprintf's return value--it says only that it returns
>the number of characters written.  
>
>Perhaps an error in the documentation?

More of an ommision...

As far as I tested it, it complies with the ANSI C specification, i.e.
returning the number of items processed, or EOF on file I/O error.
Maybe the docs should be extended in this way... It's certainly a
useful fact, the EOF condition.

George Foot