Hi Egmont, On 26 April 2015 at 13:26, Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose a small change. > > I often open the printf(3) manual page, and this beginning with > several variants (fprintf, sprintf...) implicitly suggested me for > many years that this list was kinda complete. I just randomly came > across dprintf(3) (while visiting http://ewontfix.com/10/). > > Of course, dprintf(3) is mentioned in the "see also" section of > printf(3), so strictly speaking I should've noticed it much sooner, I > just overlooked it. > > I don't find it logical that some printf variations (f, s, sn) are > documented in the same manual page, while another that's not more > different from these (d) is not. > > I'd like to recommend refactoring, and integrating dprintf(3) (and > probably asprintf(3) too) in the basic printf(3) manual page. > > It's also more useful if "man 3 dprintf" brings up the complete > documentation, rather than just the feature test macros and the > confirmance specification, and points to another manpage for the rest. I agree. Changed. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
