Remove unused snprintf count parameter

AGENTS.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ reasoning. The implementation is split by domain:
 | `src/stdlib.c` | memory, formatted output, string-to-number, realpath, djb2, and the list/tree traversal entry points |
 | `src/string.c` | the `string.h` surface |
 | `src/stream.c` | `stdio.h` beyond open/read/write/close |
+| `src/dir.c` | directory stream open/read/rewind/close |
 | `src/collections.c` | list and tree operations, hash map, string buffer, FNV-1a |
 | `src/aksl_internal.h` | shared internals; not installed, not public |
 

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ add_library(akstdlib SHARED
   src/string.c
   src/stream.c
   src/stat.c
+  src/dir.c
   src/collections.c
 )
 
@@ -308,6 +309,7 @@ install(FILES
 set(AKSL_TESTS
     collections
     convert
+    dir
     format
     hashmap
     linkedlist

UPGRADING.md

@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ having visited nothing.
 /* before */
 aksl_sprintf(&count, buf, "%s=%d", key, value);
 /* after */
-aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s=%d", key, value);
+aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s=%d", key, value);
 ```
 
-Truncation is `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS` rather than a short success, and `*count` is
+Truncation is `AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS` rather than a short success.
-`0` on any failure rather than `vsprintf`'s `-1`.
 
 **`aksl_realpath` takes the destination's length.**
 

include/akstdlib.h

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 
 /*
  * What this header needs in its own declarations, and no more:
+ *   dirent.h  DIR, struct dirent
  *   stdio.h   FILE
  *   stddef.h  size_t
  *   stdint.h  uint32_t
@@ -72,11 +73,12 @@
  * which every consumer then got whether it wanted them or not. stddef.h in place
  * of stdlib.h is the same size_t at a fraction of the namespace.
  */
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/statvfs.h>
 /* off_t, for the aksl_fseeko/aksl_ftello pair. POSIX, like aksl_realpath. */
@@ -442,9 +444,8 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_memchr(const void *s, int c, size_t n, v
 /* ====================================================================== */
 /** @name Formatted output
  *
- * `*count` is the byte count written excluding the terminating NUL, and is 0 on
+ * Bounded output is checked for truncation and reports an error when the result
- * every failure path -- never vsnprintf's -1, and never the length the output
+ * does not fit.
- * *would* have been.
  *
  * There is no aksl_sprintf. It wrapped vsprintf, which cannot be bounded, and an
  * error-handling wrapper around an unbounded write is the sharp edge this
@@ -481,16 +482,15 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_fprintf(int *count, FILE *restrict strea
  * written, leaving the caller to notice by comparing that against the buffer
  * size -- the check this library exists to stop people forgetting.
  *
- * @param[out] count  Bytes written excluding the NUL; 0 on failure. Required.
  * @param[out] str    Destination buffer. Required.
  * @param[in]  size   Size of `str` including the terminator. Must be non-zero.
  * @param[in]  format printf format string. Required. Checked at compile time.
- * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If any pointer is NULL.
+ * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If str or format is NULL.
  * @throws AKERR_VALUE If size is 0.
  * @throws AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS If the output does not fit, naming both lengths.
  * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
  */
-akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_snprintf(int *count, char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, ...) AKSL_PRINTF_FORMAT(4, 5);
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_snprintf(char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, ...) AKSL_PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 4);
 
 /**
  * @brief Format into a freshly allocated string.
@@ -549,7 +549,6 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_vfprintf(int *count, FILE *restrict stre
 
 /**
  * @brief vsnprintf(3) into a bounded buffer. The va_list form of aksl_snprintf.
- * @param[out] count  Bytes written excluding the NUL; 0 on failure. Required.
  * @param[out] str    Destination buffer. Required.
  * @param[in]  size   Size of `str` including the terminator. Must be non-zero.
  * @param[in]  format printf format string. Required.
@@ -559,7 +558,7 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_vfprintf(int *count, FILE *restrict stre
  * @throws AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS If the output does not fit.
  * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
  */
-akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_vsnprintf(int *count, char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, va_list args);
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_vsnprintf(char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, va_list args);
 
 /** @} */
 
@@ -892,6 +891,69 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_statvfs(const char *path, struct statvfs
 akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_fstatvfs(int fd, struct statvfs *dest);
 
 
+/** @} */
+/* ====================================================================== */
+/** @name Directories
+ *
+ * Directory entries are copied into caller-owned storage. `d_type` may be
+ * `DT_UNKNOWN`; callers that require a type must fall back to aksl_stat or
+ * aksl_fstatat.
+ *  @{
+ */
+/* ====================================================================== */
+
+/**
+ * @brief Open a directory stream by path.
+ * @param[in] pathname Directory path. Required.
+ * @param[out] dest Open directory stream, or NULL on failure. Required.
+ * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If pathname or dest is NULL.
+ * @throws AKERR_IO If opendir(3) fails without setting errno.
+ * @throws (errno) The errno opendir(3) set, reported directly as the status.
+ * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_opendir(const char *pathname, DIR **dest);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Open a directory stream from a file descriptor.
+ * @param[in] fd Open directory descriptor. Ownership transfers on success.
+ * @param[out] dest Open directory stream, or NULL on failure. Required.
+ * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If dest is NULL.
+ * @throws AKERR_IO If fdopendir(3) fails without setting errno.
+ * @throws (errno) The errno fdopendir(3) set, reported directly as the status.
+ * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_fdopendir(int fd, DIR **dest);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Read and copy the next directory entry.
+ * @param[in] dirp Open directory stream. Required.
+ * @param[out] dest Caller-owned storage for the copied entry. Required.
+ * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If dirp or dest is NULL.
+ * @throws AKERR_EOF At the end of the directory stream.
+ * @throws AKERR_IO If readdir(3) fails without setting errno.
+ * @throws (errno) The errno readdir(3) set, reported directly as the status.
+ * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_readdir(DIR *dirp, struct dirent *dest);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Close a directory stream.
+ * @param[in] dirp Open directory stream. Required.
+ * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If dirp is NULL.
+ * @throws AKERR_IO If closedir(3) fails without setting errno.
+ * @throws (errno) The errno closedir(3) set, reported directly as the status.
+ * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_closedir(DIR *dirp);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Reset a directory stream to its beginning.
+ * @param[in] dirp Open directory stream. Required.
+ * @throws AKERR_NULLPOINTER If dirp is NULL.
+ * @return NULL on success, an error context otherwise.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_rewinddir(DIR *dirp);
+
 /** @} */
 /* ====================================================================== */
 /** @name Streams: open, read, write, close

src/dir.c

@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+ * POSIX directory-stream wrappers.
+ *
+ * opendir(3), fdopendir(3), readdir(3), closedir(3), and rewinddir(3) expose
+ * three different failure conventions between them. These wrappers turn all
+ * three into error contexts and make end-of-directory an explicit AKERR_EOF.
+ */
+#include <akstdlib.h>
+
+#include <errno.h>
+
+#include "aksl_internal.h"
+
+/*
+ * opendir(3) returns NULL for failure. Clear *dest first so a failed open
+ * cannot leave the caller holding a stale directory stream.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_opendir(const char *pathname, DIR **dest)
+{
+    PREPARE_ERROR(e);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, dest, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "pathname=%p, dest=%p",
+		     (void *)pathname, (void *)dest);
+    *dest = NULL;
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, pathname, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "pathname=%p, dest=%p",
+		     (void *)pathname, (void *)dest);
+    errno = 0;
+    *dest = opendir(pathname);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, *dest, AKSL_ERRNO_OR(AKERR_IO), "pathname=%s", pathname);
+    SUCCEED_RETURN(e);
+}
+
+/*
+ * fdopendir(3) takes ownership of fd only when it succeeds. On success the
+ * matching aksl_closedir call closes both the stream and its descriptor.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_fdopendir(int fd, DIR **dest)
+{
+    PREPARE_ERROR(e);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, dest, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "fd=%d, dest=%p", fd, (void *)dest);
+    *dest = NULL;
+    errno = 0;
+    *dest = fdopendir(fd);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, *dest, AKSL_ERRNO_OR(AKERR_IO), "fd=%d", fd);
+    SUCCEED_RETURN(e);
+}
+
+/*
+ * readdir(3) owns and may reuse its returned storage. Copy the entry into the
+ * caller's destination, and use errno to distinguish failure from exhaustion.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_readdir(DIR *dirp, struct dirent *dest)
+{
+    struct dirent *entry = NULL;
+    PREPARE_ERROR(e);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, dirp, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "dirp=%p, dest=%p",
+		     (void *)dirp, (void *)dest);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, dest, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "dirp=%p, dest=%p",
+		     (void *)dirp, (void *)dest);
+
+    /* readdir uses errno to distinguish failure from end-of-directory. */
+    errno = 0;
+    entry = readdir(dirp);
+    if ( entry == NULL ) {
+	FAIL_NONZERO_RETURN(e, errno, AKSL_ERRNO_OR(AKERR_IO), "readdir failed");
+	FAIL_RETURN(e, AKERR_EOF, "end of directory");
+    }
+    *dest = *entry;
+    SUCCEED_RETURN(e);
+}
+
+/* closedir(3) reports its failure directly and invalidates dirp on success. */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_closedir(DIR *dirp)
+{
+    PREPARE_ERROR(e);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, dirp, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "dirp=%p", (void *)dirp);
+    errno = 0;
+    FAIL_NONZERO_RETURN(e, closedir(dirp), AKSL_ERRNO_OR(AKERR_IO),
+			"closedir failed");
+    SUCCEED_RETURN(e);
+}
+
+/*
+ * rewinddir(3) has no failure return. Preserve that contract after rejecting
+ * a NULL stream, which would otherwise be undefined behaviour.
+ */
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_rewinddir(DIR *dirp)
+{
+    PREPARE_ERROR(e);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, dirp, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "dirp=%p", (void *)dirp);
+    rewinddir(dirp);
+    SUCCEED_RETURN(e);
+}

src/stdlib.c

@@ -416,10 +416,6 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_fclose(FILE *stream)
  *     register-save state on some ABIs. akbasic's text sink ran this UB on every
  *     line of program output without anything visibly misbehaving, which is
  *     exactly what made it worth fixing before something did.
- *   - *count is written on every path. It used to be left holding vprintf's -1
- *     after a failure, so a caller who read the length rather than the status got
- *     a negative byte count out of a function that had already failed. It is now
- *     0 whenever an error is raised.
  *   - errno is cleared before the call and read back through AKSL_ERRNO_OR, so a
  *     failure can never be reported with a stale -- or with a zero -- status.
  *
@@ -485,34 +481,31 @@ akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_fprintf(int *count, FILE *restrict strea
  * *would* have written and silently drops the rest, which is the single most
  * common way a bounded write goes wrong unnoticed; a caller who wanted to know
  * would have had to compare the return against the buffer size by hand, which is
- * the check this library exists to stop people forgetting. *count is the number
+ * the check this library exists to stop people forgetting. The bounded wrapper
- * of bytes written excluding the terminating NUL, and is 0 on any failure.
+ * reports truncation instead.
  */
-akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_vsnprintf(int *count, char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, va_list args)
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_vsnprintf(char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, va_list args)
 {
     int needed = 0;
     PREPARE_ERROR(e);
-    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, count, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "count=%p, str=%p, format=%p", (void *)count, (void *)str, (void *)format);
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, str, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "str=%p, format=%p", (void *)str, (void *)format);
-    *count = 0;
+    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, format, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "str=%p, format=%p", (void *)str, (void *)format);
-    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, str, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "count=%p, str=%p, format=%p", (void *)count, (void *)str, (void *)format);
-    FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, format, AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "count=%p, str=%p, format=%p", (void *)count, (void *)str, (void *)format);
     FAIL_ZERO_RETURN(e, size, AKERR_VALUE, "size=0 leaves no room even for the terminating NUL");
     errno = 0;
     needed = vsnprintf(str, size, format, args);
     FAIL_NONZERO_RETURN(e, (needed < 0), AKSL_ERRNO_OR(AKERR_IO), "Output error");
     FAIL_NONZERO_RETURN(e, ((size_t)needed >= size), AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS,
 			"output truncated: %d bytes needed, %zu available", needed, size);
-    *count = needed;
     SUCCEED_RETURN(e);
 }
 
-akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_snprintf(int *count, char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, ...)
+akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *aksl_snprintf(char *restrict str, size_t size, const char *restrict format, ...)
 {
     va_list args;
     akerr_ErrorContext *raised = NULL;
 
     va_start(args, format);
-    raised = aksl_vsnprintf(count, str, size, format, args);
+    raised = aksl_vsnprintf(str, size, format, args);
     va_end(args);
     return raised;
 }

tests/negative/format_mismatch.c

@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@
 int main(void)
 {
     char buf[64];
-    int count = 0;
     akerr_ErrorContext *raised = NULL;
 
     /* %d against a string. This is the line that must not build. */
-    raised = aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", "not an int");
+    raised = aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", "not an int");
 
     return raised == NULL ? 0 : 1;
 }

tests/test_dir.c

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+#include "aksl_capture.h"
+
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+static int make_directory(char *path, size_t size)
+{
+    const char *tmp = getenv("TMPDIR");
+    if ( tmp == NULL || tmp[0] == '\0' ) {
+	tmp = "/tmp";
+    }
+    if ( (size_t)snprintf(path, size, "%s/aksl_dir_XXXXXX", tmp) >= size ) {
+	return 1;
+    }
+    return mkdtemp(path) == NULL;
+}
+
+static int test_open_errors_and_nulls(void)
+{
+    char file[AKSL_TMP_MAX];
+    DIR *dirp = (DIR *)1;
+    struct dirent entry;
+
+    /* opendir propagates missing-path and non-directory failures. */
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_opendir("/nonexistent/aksl/dir", &dirp), ENOENT);
+    AKSL_CHECK(dirp == NULL);
+    AKSL_CHECK(aksl_temp_file(file, sizeof(file)) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_opendir(file, &dirp), ENOTDIR);
+
+    /* Every pointer required by the wrapped operation rejects NULL. */
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_opendir(NULL, &dirp), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_opendir(".", NULL), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+
+    /* fdopendir propagates an invalid descriptor and validates its out-param. */
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_fdopendir(-1, &dirp), EBADF);
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_fdopendir(0, NULL), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+
+    /* The remaining wrappers reject NULL streams and destinations. */
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_readdir(NULL, &entry), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_opendir(".", &dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_readdir(dirp, NULL), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_closedir(dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_closedir(NULL), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_rewinddir(NULL), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+    AKSL_CHECK(unlink(file) == 0);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int test_copy_eof_rewind_and_fdopendir(void)
+{
+    char path[AKSL_TMP_MAX], first_path[AKSL_TMP_MAX], second_path[AKSL_TMP_MAX];
+    struct dirent entry, saved;
+    char first_read[sizeof(entry.d_name)];
+    DIR *dirp = NULL;
+    int fd = -1, seen_first = 0, seen_second = 0;
+
+    AKSL_CHECK(make_directory(path, sizeof(path)) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(snprintf(first_path, sizeof(first_path), "%s/first", path) < (int)sizeof(first_path));
+    AKSL_CHECK(snprintf(second_path, sizeof(second_path), "%s/second", path) < (int)sizeof(second_path));
+    fd = open(first_path, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0600);
+    AKSL_CHECK(fd >= 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(close(fd) == 0);
+    fd = open(second_path, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY, 0600);
+    AKSL_CHECK(fd >= 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(close(fd) == 0);
+
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_opendir(path, &dirp));
+    do {
+	akerr_ErrorContext *error = aksl_readdir(dirp, &entry);
+	if ( error != NULL ) {
+	    int status = error->status;
+	    RELEASE_ERROR(error);
+	    AKSL_CHECK(status == AKERR_EOF);
+	    break;
+	}
+	if ( strcmp(entry.d_name, "first") == 0 ) { saved = entry; seen_first++; }
+	if ( strcmp(entry.d_name, "second") == 0 ) seen_second++;
+    } while ( 1 );
+    AKSL_CHECK(seen_first == 1 && seen_second == 1);
+    AKSL_CHECK(strcmp(saved.d_name, "first") == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_rewinddir(dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_readdir(dirp, &entry));
+    AKSL_CHECK(snprintf(first_read, sizeof(first_read), "%s", entry.d_name) < (int)sizeof(first_read));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_readdir(dirp, &entry));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_rewinddir(dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_readdir(dirp, &entry));
+    AKSL_CHECK(strcmp(entry.d_name, first_read) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_closedir(dirp));
+
+    fd = open(path, O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY);
+    AKSL_CHECK(fd >= 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_fdopendir(fd, &dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_readdir(dirp, &entry));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_closedir(dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK(unlink(first_path) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(unlink(second_path) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(rmdir(path) == 0);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int test_empty_directory_reaches_eof_after_dot_entries(void)
+{
+    char path[AKSL_TMP_MAX];
+    struct dirent entry;
+    DIR *dirp = NULL;
+    int count = 0, saw_dot = 0, saw_dotdot = 0;
+
+    AKSL_CHECK(make_directory(path, sizeof(path)) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_opendir(path, &dirp));
+    for ( ;; ) {
+	akerr_ErrorContext *error = aksl_readdir(dirp, &entry);
+	if ( error != NULL ) {
+	    int status = error->status;
+	    RELEASE_ERROR(error);
+	    AKSL_CHECK(status == AKERR_EOF);
+	    break;
+	}
+	count++;
+	if ( strcmp(entry.d_name, ".") == 0 ) saw_dot++;
+	if ( strcmp(entry.d_name, "..") == 0 ) saw_dotdot++;
+    }
+    AKSL_CHECK(count == 2 && saw_dot == 1 && saw_dotdot == 1);
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_closedir(dirp));
+    AKSL_CHECK(rmdir(path) == 0);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static int test_permission_denied(void)
+{
+    char path[AKSL_TMP_MAX];
+    DIR *dirp = NULL;
+    AKSL_CHECK(make_directory(path, sizeof(path)) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(chmod(path, 0000) == 0);
+    if ( geteuid() == 0 ) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "     (skipped: running as root, chmod 000 denies nothing)\n");
+    } else {
+	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_opendir(path, &dirp), EACCES);
+    }
+    AKSL_CHECK(chmod(path, 0700) == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(rmdir(path) == 0);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    int failures = 0;
+    AKSL_RUN(failures, test_open_errors_and_nulls);
+    AKSL_RUN(failures, test_copy_eof_rewind_and_fdopendir);
+    AKSL_RUN(failures, test_empty_directory_reaches_eof_after_dot_entries);
+    AKSL_RUN(failures, test_permission_denied);
+    AKSL_REPORT(failures);
+}

tests/test_format.c

@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
  * Formatted-output wrappers: aksl_printf / aksl_fprintf / aksl_snprintf and
  * their va_list forms.
  *
- * Formatted output, complete. Each happy path asserts both halves of the
+ * Formatted output, complete. Each happy path asserts the text that actually
- * contract -- the byte count handed back through *count and the text that
+ * landed somewhere, and every pointer argument is checked for its NULL guard.
- * actually landed somewhere -- and every pointer argument is checked for its
- * NULL guard.
  *
  * Readback goes through plain libc rather than aksl_fread so that a failure here
  * points at the formatted-output wrapper under test and not at the stream
@@ -39,14 +37,12 @@ static long read_file(const char *path, char *buf, size_t n)
     return (long)got;
 }
 
-static int test_snprintf_writes_text_and_count(void)
+static int test_snprintf_writes_text(void)
 {
     char buf[64];
-    int count = -1;
 
     memset(buf, 0x00, sizeof(buf));
-    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s=%d", "x", 7));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s=%d", "x", 7));
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 3);
     AKSL_CHECK(strcmp(buf, "x=7") == 0);
     return 0;
 }
@@ -54,10 +50,8 @@ static int test_snprintf_writes_text_and_count(void)
 static int test_snprintf_empty_format_writes_nothing(void)
 {
     char buf[8] = { 'z', 'z', 'z', 'z', 'z', 'z', 'z', 'z' };
-    int count = -1;
 
-    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", ""));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", ""));
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 0);
     AKSL_CHECK(buf[0] == '\0');
     return 0;
 }
@@ -66,18 +60,17 @@ static int test_snprintf_empty_format_writes_nothing(void)
  * The case that could not be written while the wrapper was aksl_sprintf: output
  * longer than the destination. snprintf(3) would truncate, NUL-terminate and
  * report the length it *would* have written, leaving the caller to notice; here
- * it is an error, and *count is 0 rather than the would-have-been length.
+ * it is an error.
  */
 static int test_snprintf_truncation_is_an_error(void)
 {
     char buf[8];
-    int count = -1;
 
     memset(buf, 0x00, sizeof(buf));
     AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(
-	aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", "far too long for eight bytes"),
+	aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", "far too long for eight bytes"),
 	AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS, "truncated");
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 0);
+    AKSL_CHECK(strcmp(buf, "far too") == 0);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -85,34 +78,27 @@ static int test_snprintf_truncation_is_an_error(void)
 static int test_snprintf_boundary_is_exact(void)
 {
     char buf[8];
-    int count = -1;
 
     /* 7 characters plus the NUL is exactly sizeof(buf). */
-    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", "1234567"));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", "1234567"));
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 7);
     AKSL_CHECK(strcmp(buf, "1234567") == 0);
 
-    count = -1;
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", "12345678"),
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", "12345678"),
 		      AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS);
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 0);
     return 0;
 }
 
 static int test_snprintf_rejects_null_arguments_and_zero_size(void)
 {
     char buf[8];
-    int count = 0;
 
     memset(buf, 0x00, sizeof(buf));
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(NULL, buf, sizeof(buf), "x"),
+	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(NULL, 8, "x"),
-				   AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "count=");
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(&count, NULL, 8, "x"),
 				   AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "str=");
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), NULL),
+	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), NULL),
 				   AKERR_NULLPOINTER, "format=");
     /* size 0 leaves no room even for the terminator, so there is nothing to do. */
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, 0, "x"),
+	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS_MSG_CONTAINS(aksl_snprintf(buf, 0, "x"),
 				   AKERR_VALUE, "size=0");
     return 0;
 }
@@ -274,14 +260,14 @@ static int test_asprintf_allocates_to_fit(void)
  * wanted them exposed so consumers can write their own variadic wrappers. This
  * is a consumer doing exactly that.
  */
-static akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *consumer_wrapper(int *count, char *buf, size_t n,
+static akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *consumer_wrapper(char *buf, size_t n,
 							   const char *fmt, ...)
 {
     va_list args;
     akerr_ErrorContext *raised = NULL;
 
     va_start(args, fmt);
-    raised = aksl_vsnprintf(count, buf, n, fmt, args);
+    raised = aksl_vsnprintf(buf, n, fmt, args);
     va_end(args);
     return raised;
 }
@@ -289,17 +275,14 @@ static akerr_ErrorContext AKERR_NOIGNORE *consumer_wrapper(int *count, char *buf
 static int test_va_list_forms_are_usable_from_outside(void)
 {
     char buf[32];
-    int count = -1;
 
     memset(buf, 0x00, sizeof(buf));
-    AKSL_CHECK_OK(consumer_wrapper(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/%d", "via", 3));
+    AKSL_CHECK_OK(consumer_wrapper(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s/%d", "via", 3));
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 5);
     AKSL_CHECK(strcmp(buf, "via/3") == 0);
 
     /* The error contract survives the extra layer intact. */
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(consumer_wrapper(&count, buf, 4, "%s", "too long"),
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(consumer_wrapper(buf, 4, "%s", "too long"),
 		      AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS);
-    AKSL_CHECK(count == 0);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -312,14 +295,12 @@ static int test_va_list_forms_are_usable_from_outside(void)
 static int test_variadic_wrappers_survive_repeated_calls(void)
 {
     char buf[128];
-    int count = 0;
     int i = 0;
 
     for ( i = 0; i < 512; i++ ) {
-	AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, sizeof(buf), "%d %s %ld %c %f",
+	AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d %s %ld %c %f",
 				    i, "iteration", (long)i, 'x', (double)i));
-	AKSL_CHECK(count > 0);
+	AKSL_CHECK(strlen(buf) > 0);
-	AKSL_CHECK((size_t)count == strlen(buf));
     }
     return 0;
 }
@@ -330,7 +311,7 @@ int main(void)
 
     akerr_init();
 
-    AKSL_RUN(failures, test_snprintf_writes_text_and_count);
+    AKSL_RUN(failures, test_snprintf_writes_text);
     AKSL_RUN(failures, test_snprintf_empty_format_writes_nothing);
     AKSL_RUN(failures, test_snprintf_truncation_is_an_error);
     AKSL_RUN(failures, test_snprintf_boundary_is_exact);

tests/test_pool.c

@@ -109,14 +109,13 @@ static int test_stream_wrappers_do_not_leak_slots(void)
 static int test_format_wrappers_do_not_leak_slots(void)
 {
     char buf[16];
-    int count = 0;
     int i = 0;
 
     for ( i = 0; i < ROUNDS; i++ ) {
 	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_printf(NULL, "x"), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
 	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_fprintf(NULL, stdout, "x"), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
-	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(NULL, buf, sizeof(buf), "x"), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+	AKSL_CHECK_OK(aksl_snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "x"));
-	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(&count, buf, 4, "%s", "far too long"),
+	AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(buf, 4, "%s", "far too long"),
 			  AKERR_OUTOFBOUNDS);
 	AKSL_CHECK(aksl_slots_in_use() == 0);
     }
@@ -266,7 +265,6 @@ static int test_traversal_failures_do_not_leak_slots(void)
 static int test_errors_name_their_origin_in_stdlib(void)
 {
     void *ptr = NULL;
-    int count = 0;
     char resolved[PATH_MAX];
     uint32_t h = 0;
     aksl_ListNode node;
@@ -295,7 +293,7 @@ static int test_errors_name_their_origin_in_stdlib(void)
     AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_printf(NULL, "x"), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
     AKSL_CHECK(came_from("aksl_vprintf", "src/stdlib.c") == 0);
 
-    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(&count, NULL, 8, "x"), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
+    AKSL_CHECK_STATUS(aksl_snprintf(NULL, 8, "x"), AKERR_NULLPOINTER);
     AKSL_CHECK(came_from("aksl_vsnprintf", "src/stdlib.c") == 0);
 
     /* Likewise, the ato* forms are calls into the strto* ones. */