On 20/02/2016 20:11, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 08:34:07AM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote: >> The aprint_*(9) functions are *only* suitable for use within >> autoconf(9) code. The printf(9) or log(9) functions need to be used if >> it is not autoconf(9)-related. There is existing code that abuses >> aprint_*(), please fix that too. > > Some people repeat that over and over again. There is no reason why > printf should ever be preferred and quite a few reasons why it is > inferior. log(9) is quite different.
He's just saying what's written in printf(9), which oddly enough has no reference to log(9). Maybe you could suggest a suitable man page patch? Roy
