Debian Bug report logs - #317037
manpages-dev: Difficult to understand in sscanf RETURN VALUE

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Package: manpages-dev; Maintainer for manpages-dev is Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>; Source for manpages-dev is src:manpages (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:33:47 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed-upstream

Fixed in version 2.09-1

Done: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Package: manpages-dev
Severity: normal

I quote from the RETURN VALUE section of sscanf(3):

  The value EOF is returned if an input failure occurs before any
  conversion such as an end-of-file occurs.

This seems to imply that "end-of-file" is a "conversion", which I
think must be unintentional.  I suggest the following replacement
text (which is probably what is intended):

  The value EOF is returned if an input failure (such as end-of-file)
  occurs before any conversion is assigned.

Justin

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