Re: [PATCH] Re: sscanf("-1", "%d", &i) fails, returns 0

Ray Lee (ray-lk@madrabbit.org)
14 Nov 2002 09:34:14 -0800


(Sorry for taking so long to review something so short, btw.)

On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 23:06, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On 11 Nov 2002, Ray Lee wrote:
> | Explicitly, in the scan conversion you'd do a:
> | unsigned int *u = (unsigned int *) va_arg(args,long long *);
> | *u = (unsigned int) converted_value;

(Luckily you didn't follow my code snippet too closely. Oops.)

> See if this is close...
<snip>
> I think that this patch (to 2.5.47) gets the kernel close
> to the same semantics as C's sscanf() function, which is
> usually a good thing. What say you?

The sample conversions and patch look correct. Time to forward it
onward, me thinks.

Ray

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