yep, better than mine. ok
jmc
On 4 April 2021 14:41:13 BST, Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 07:17:27AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 04, 2021 at 01:22:23AM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
>> > @@ -119,6 +119,17 @@ send formatted strings to the ddb console, and
>are onl
>> > Since each of these kernel functions is a variant of its user
>space
>> > counterpart, this page describes only the differences between the
>user
>> > space and kernel versions.
>> > +.Pp
>> > +The limited syntax of a conversion specification is:
>>
>> hi. i'm fine with your diff, though cannot really judge the actual
>> content. but the "limited syntax" text is a bit ambiguous. you could
>> still expect from it that a full syntax version is supported.
>Right, I do imply that nothing more is supported; this sentence is a
>cheap copy of printf(3)'s sentence
>
> The overall syntax of a conversion specification is:
>
>> maybe spell it out?
>>
>> printf(9) supports a subset of the conversion specification
>> available to printf(3):
>>
>> sth like that?
>Thanks, how about this?
>
>Only a subset of the user space conversion specification is available
>to
> the kernel version:
>
> %[width][size]conversion
>
> Refer to printf(3) for functional details.
>
>
>
>Index: share/man/man9/printf.9
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/src/share/man/man9/printf.9,v
>retrieving revision 1.24
>diff -u -p -r1.24 printf.9
>--- share/man/man9/printf.9 7 Nov 2015 03:48:25 -0000 1.24
>+++ share/man/man9/printf.9 4 Apr 2021 13:39:02 -0000
>@@ -119,6 +119,18 @@ send formatted strings to the ddb consol
> Since each of these kernel functions is a variant of its user space
> counterpart, this page describes only the differences between the user
> space and kernel versions.
>+.Pp
>+Only a subset of the user space conversion specification is available
>to the
>+kernel version:
>+.Bd -filled -offset indent
>+.Sm off
>+.Cm %
>+.Op Ar width
>+.Op Ar size
>+.Ar conversion
>+.Sm on
>+.Ed
>+.Pp
> Refer to
> .Xr printf 3
> for functional details.
