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authorschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2019-01-16 12:55:49 +0000
committerschwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2019-01-16 12:55:49 +0000
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parentinclude pf.h for #if NPF > 0 test (diff)
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For all functions known to be infected by LC_NUMERIC, add short
CAVEATS pointing to the new CAVEATS section in setlocale(3). Make those in wprintf(3) and wscanf(3) more concise since duplicate information is a bad idea. Incompleteness of information originally pointed out by millert@. OK millert@
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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
index bcd156c5441..de75b931ce3 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.23 2017/12/01 11:18:40 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.24 2019/01/16 12:55:49 schwarze Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 1 2017 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 16 2019 $
.Dt SCANF 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -459,6 +459,15 @@ and
.Fn vfscanf
in
.Bx 4.3 Reno .
+.Sh CAVEATS
+On systems other than
+.Ox ,
+the
+.Dv LC_NUMERIC
+.Xr locale 1
+category can cause parsing failures; see CAVEATS in
+.Xr setlocale 3
+for details.
.Sh BUGS
Numerical strings are truncated to 512 characters; for example,
.Cm %f