Hi Zack, On 12/29/22 17:35, Zack Weinberg wrote:
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 don’t 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.
I've done the splitting. If you would like to prepare any patches for adding BUGS, I'll take them :)
Cheers, Alex
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