On 2009-01-13 04:53:30 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The POSIX.1 spec says something different, much closer to the Linux
> > man page:
>
> I've checked that, and I think there's a contradiction between POSIX and
> the ISO C on this point. I've just sent a mail to the mailing-list of the
> aust
Hi Michael,
On 2009-01-13 13:43:03 +1300, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> It is correct English, though slightly hard to parse.
>
> The value EOF is returned if [[the end of input is reached]] before
> either [[the first successful conversion]] or [[a matching failure
> occurs]].
OK, but in
Hello Vincent,
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 3.15-1
> Severity: normal
>
> The sentence
>
>The value EOF is returned if the end of input is reached before
>either the first successful conversion or a matching failure
>occurs
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 3.15-1
Severity: normal
The sentence
The value EOF is returned if the end of input is reached before
either the first successful conversion or a matching failure
occurs.
does not look correct English to me. The word "either" may be
misplaced. Anyway, th
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