Jeffrey Walton wrote: > snprintf is kind of a lame for a replacement since it backfills the > buffer with all 0's.
Nope, it doesn't. [1] You must be confusing it with strncpy(), which fills all the buffer. [2] Bruno [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fprintf.html [2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strncpy.html