From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Feb 11 9:28:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7510737B401; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:28:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1BHSbu18962; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:28:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:28:37 -0800 (PST) From: Message-Id: <200102111728.f1BHSbu18962@freefall.freebsd.org> To: xaa@dohd.org, nik@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20117: *printf manpage doesn't document %n Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Synopsis: *printf manpage doesn't document %n State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: nik State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 11 09:27:26 PST 2001 State-Changed-Why: iMy -current system has this in printf(3) n The number of characters written so far is stored into the inte- ger indicated by the ``int *'' (or variant) pointer argument. No argument is converted. As far as I can see, it's been there forever. The text is not quite as verbose as some of the suggested replacements, but I'm wary of lifting text directly from GPLd man pages and putting it in our base system. If you think the text isn't clear enough, please suggest a replacement (ideally, as a patch :-) ), and PR it. Thanks. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20117 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message