From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 13:06:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA29181 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:06:51 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA29174 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:06:47 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA02361; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:05:21 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509182005.NAA02361@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers? To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 13:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: <6760.811430864@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Sep 18, 95 06:27:44 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 784 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > >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 :)