Hello Stefan, On 2 December 2015 at 13:36, Stefan Tauner <tauner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed that the description about the %s type modifier in > the official scanf man page is a bit misleading (man3/scanf.3:454). It > currently states "the next pointer must be a pointer to character > array". However the (C99) standard says "the corresponding argument > shall be a pointer to the initial element of a character array". Fair enough. I changed the text of the page as you suggest. Thanbks for the report. Cheers, 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