On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 05:47:06 -0500, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 12/29/22 07:39, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > To be clear, I personally donʼt have plans to do any of the actual > > programming or standard-changing work involved here. :-) > > Ah, no, I meant more that the whole set of glibc maintainers had that > in mind, as a long term plan (like 10 years maybe?). Oh, OK. Yeah, changes to the standard can easily take that long. > Before you start writing patches, I'm considering the following, which > is my way to say don't use these functions without deprecating them: > > Split FILE and char* functions into separate manual pages. In the one > for [v]sscanf(3), I'd keep the current documentation. In the one for > FILE functions, I'd keep it very short, defering to sscanf(3) for > documentation of things like conversion specifiers, and that page > would only cover the bugs^Wdifferences that apply only to FILE > functions. That seems like a good way forward to me. zw
