From: Joe Perches > Sent: 29 August 2020 21:34 ... > > On 8/29/20 9:23 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > > While doing an investigation for a possible treewide conversion of > > > sysfs output using sprintf/snprintf/scnprintf, I discovered > > > several instances of sysfs output without terminating newlines. > > > > > > It seems likely all of these should have newline terminations > > > or have the \n\r termination changed to a single newline. > > > > I think that it could break badly written scripts in rare cases. > > Maybe. > > Is sysfs output a nominally unchangeable api like seq_? > Dunno. seq_ output is extended all the time. > > I think whitespace isn't generally considered part of > sscanf type input content awareness. The shell will remove trailing '\n' (but not '\r') from: foo=$(cat bar) So shell scripts are unlikely to be affected. David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)