On Nov 17 17:06:11, j...@kerhand.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:38:41AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > I am not a native speaker, but the conversion specifiers
> > are "interpreted" by printf, not "interpolated", right?
> >
> > Jan
> >
>
> i don;t know how these implementations work, so it's hard to say.
> perhaps they are interpolated. maybe use cvs to track down the author
> and ask them?
>
> whatever the outcome, if you want to change this text you probably want
> to adjust a few more:
>
> /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/err.3:for later interpolation by the
> /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/setproctitle.3:for later interpolation by
> /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/syslog.3:for later interpolation by
> /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3:for later interpolation by
Hm, probably just my English;
sorry for the noise.
Jan
> jmc
>
> > Index: printf.3
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/stdio/printf.3,v
> > retrieving revision 1.74
> > diff -u -p -r1.74 printf.3
> > --- printf.3 13 Oct 2015 12:25:04 -0000 1.74
> > +++ printf.3 17 Nov 2015 09:36:19 -0000
> > @@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ This holds true even if the string has b
> > using a function like
> > .Fn snprintf ,
> > as the resulting string may still contain user-supplied conversion
> > specifiers
> > -for later interpolation by
> > +for later interpretation by
> > .Fn printf .
> > .Pp
> > Be sure to use the proper secure idiom:
> >
