Package: manpages-dev Version: 2.80-1 Severity: normal
In the GNU and UC versions of the libc (at least), the scanf/fscanf/sscanf... functions seem to be calling strtoxxx internally for number conversions. In doing so, errno may be set to ERANGE when the input doesn't fit in the number size requested and possibly to EINVAL for a figures not in the requested base. I think this should be mentionned. It should probably be mentionned that one shouldn't rely on that to check whether an out-of-range number was provided given that it is not clearly specified by POSIX. Also, the %as GNU extension seems not to be documented (it may return ENOMEM) in the man page. It is in the glibc documentation. It doesn't seem to be supported by ucLibc but is required on LSB 3.2 conformant systems, it would seem (http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/baselib-scanf.html) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-rc8 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 2.80-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin manpages-dev recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
