Hello Justin, hello Michael, hello Joey, On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:27:43AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:25:15PM -0800, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > scanf > corresponding pointer argument. If the next item of input does not > match the the conversion specification, the conversion fails > ^^^^^^^
In 2.56 this reduplication is still present, please see the attached patch. All the other fixes proposed by Justin appear to have been included. Cheers, Flo
diff -ruN man-pages-2.56.orig/man3/scanf.3 man-pages-2.56/man3/scanf.3 --- man-pages-2.56.orig/man3/scanf.3 2007-05-18 11:55:10.000000000 +0200 +++ man-pages-2.56/man3/scanf.3 2007-06-14 17:18:04.000000000 +0200 @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ this specification, and the result is placed in the corresponding .I pointer argument. -If the next item of input does not match the the conversion specification, +If the next item of input does not match the conversion specification, the conversion fails \(em this is a .IR "matching failure" . .PP
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