https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55371 --- Comment #8 from Filipus Klutiero <chealer@xxxxxxxxx> --- Few students will be given man printf to read in school. The vast majority of consultations will happen when people try to interpret or write a call to printf(). It is unlikely that these readers will read the entire page at once. If the documentation says each conversion specifier asks for the next argument, it is reasonable to expect that readers - whether careful or not - will conclude that each conversion specifier asks for the next argument, unless they read up to the point where this is contradicted. If you think a note about exceptions would clutter, terminology can be used, for example "regular conversion specifier" versus "special conversion specifier". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
