>From https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/printf.html: Upon successful completion, the dprintf(), fprintf(), and printf() functions shall return the number of bytes transmitted. Fixes bug 218600 <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218600>. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Baxter <jtbx@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/printf.3 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index eb152aa19..15ed75439 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ No argument is converted. The complete conversion specification is \[aq]%%\[aq]. .SH RETURN VALUE -Upon successful return, these functions return the number of characters +Upon successful return, these functions return the number of bytes printed (excluding the null byte used to end output to strings). .P The functions -- 2.44.0
