On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 15:46:46 +0000 Richard Fitzgerald <r...@opensource.cirrus.com> wrote:
> See this thread from 2014 where the field width problem was raised and > explained: > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1401.1/03443.html > > and the reply from Linus Torvalds that was against fixing field width > handling: > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1401.1/03488.html Thanks for the pointers, but note, that references to older emails should use https://lore.kernel.org/ as these links format the output really horribly. > > which I assume is why the field handling wasn't unoptimized to be > strictly correct. > > Nevertheless, I see no reason not to remove avoidable inconsistencies > from the current design. Yes, but perhaps its time to fix the real problem and not just add band-aids. That thread is over 6 years old (the email was from Jan 14, 2014) $ git diff `git rev-list --before 'Jan 14 2014' HEAD --max-count=1` | grep '^+' | grep sscanf | wc -l 622 There's been over 600 new additions of sscanf(). Now is the time to just fix it correctly. -- Steve
