On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:08:45AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: [...] > I don't know that manpages-dev has a policy on that. Upstream > man-pages policy is: yes, document glibc specifics (but give context > re portability). [...]
Thanks a lot Michael for all the details. BTW, I just came accross: http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man3/sscanf.3.php Which documents the "a" flag (and the "a" conversion in the wrong section). I'm surprised because that page claims not to have been modified since 1995 and as far as I can remember the glibc was not in common use on Linux at that time. Do you have an idea where that man page comes from? Some early glibc documentation? See also: http://www.rt.com/man/scanf.3.html http://www.linuxvalley.it/encyclopedia/ldp/manpage/man3/scanf.3.php http://www.squarebox.co.uk/cgi-squarebox/manServer/scanf.3 It seems that version of the man page is in some Linux distribution and doesn't come from kernel.org. Okay, after checking, it seems to be found on RedHat, at least RHEL3. -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
