Johannes Sixt wrote: > No need to die here. Just make the buffer large enough, and you can have > something that is as large as 18446744073709551615Y. In my initial rendition, the output was guaranteed not to be longer than 5 characters. However, you're right that there's no need to die, but perhaps just return a negative value equal to the size over the user's requested maxlen. -- Marcus Griep GPG Key ID: 0x5E968152 —— http://www.boohaunt.net את.ψο´ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html