They serve very little purpose and mostly just add noise. Most of them
have been around for a very long time. I read them all before removing
or rephrasing them.
Ref: #3876Closes#3883
The function does not return the same value as snprintf() normally does,
so readers may be mislead into thinking the code works differently than
it actually does. A different function name makes this easier to detect.
Reported-by: Tomas Hoger
Assisted-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Fixes#3296Closes#3297
If the precision is indeed shorter than the string, don't strlen() to
find the end because that's not how the precision operator works.
I also added a unit test for curl_msnprintf to make sure this works and
that the fix doesn't a few other basic use cases. I found a POSIX
compliance problem that I marked TODO in the unit test, and I figure we
need to add more tests in the future.
Reported-by: Török Edwin
