Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:05:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? Message-ID: <199509182005.NAA02361@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <6760.811430864@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 18, 95 06:27:44 am
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> > > >I'd like to add a format specifier '%S' to the list of format specifiers > > >accepted by printf. Well, kernel printf, anyway. > > > > I don't want wchar_t's in the kernel. > I also fail to see the need for this, and even if I did see the need, I > still think we shouldn't have them in the kernel... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. > http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. > whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. > Just that: dried leaves in boiling water ? > I would have to agree.. the kernel is too special a case to try make it generic in this way.. maybe a 'syslogd' that can translate well known system error messages might be more useful :)
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