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From: Anonymous <prdeltoid@gmx.us>
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Subject: An error in the printf man page.
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>Number:         150548
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       An error in the printf(3) man page.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    ru
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 14 04:40:02 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:    Wed Oct 06 10:57:40 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Wed Oct 06 10:57:40 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Anonymous
>Release:        8.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD home 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010     root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
I originally came across this when I used "man 3 sprintf" to view the sprintf man page.
This is the output from "man 3 printf", the hyphens are added to make the separation between my writing and my copied and pasted text clear:
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[prdeltoid@home /usr/home/prdeltoid]$ man 3 printf
PRINTF(3)              FreeBSD Library Functions Manual              PRINTF(3)

NAME
     printf, fprintf, sprintf, snprintf, asprintf, dprintf, vprintf, vfprintf,
     vsprintf, vsnprintf, vasprintf, vdprintf -- formatted output conversion

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #define _WITH_DPRINTF
     #include <stdio.h>

     int
     printf(const char * restrict format, ...);

     int
     fprintf(FILE * restrict stream, const char * restrict format, ...);

     int
     sprintf(char * restrict str, const char * restrict format, ...);

     int
--More--(byte 1161)mdoc warning: Using a macro as first argument cancels effect of .Cm (#815)
Usage: .%U URL ... (#815)
Usage: .Cm interactive_command_modifier ... (#819)
     snprintf(char * restrict str, size_t size, const char * restrict format,
         ...);

     int
     asprintf(char **ret, const char *format, ...);
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>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->patched 
State-Changed-By: arundel 
State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 15 10:21:31 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
Patched in HEAD (r203958). 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->ru 
Responsible-Changed-By: arundel 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Sep 15 10:21:31 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Assign to committer as MFC reminder. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=150548 
State-Changed-From-To: patched->closed 
State-Changed-By: arundel 
State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 6 10:51:47 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed in stable/8 (r213473). Problem doesn't exist in stable/7. 
Thanks Ruslan. :) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=150548 
>Unformatted:
