On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:14:33PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > > 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 > > > > not neccessarily. the author may have been confused too. who knows. i > had to look up "interpolation" myself. it's a word i'd prefer to avoid > in man pages if we can ;) > > jan is right, interpretation is the correct word. Interpolate is using something to do mathematically. the program is going to work on, so interpret...