Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/09/14:24:36
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:10:11PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>mwoehlke wrote:
>>mwoehlke wrote:
>>>I thought I'd have a crack at fixing the manpage for printf(3) (see
>>>http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00288.html), but when I opened
>>>it, I was a bit shocked to discover that it is only *MARGINALLY* in
>>>troff format. I do note that other manpages seem more "normal" (man1
>>>pages, for instance)... So, is this just "how the C lib manpages are"?
>>>
>>>I am not going to submit a "patch" on this mess. If I do anything with
>>>it, I am going to submit a proper troff document. Given how much work
>>>I would have to do to fix the existing page, I am much more inclined
>>>to take my printf.3 from my Linux box and adjust it into consistency
>>>with Cygwin's printf() instead. I'm willing to clean up the existing
>>>manpage, but I think the style of the Linux manpage would be an
>>>improvement (what we have looks like it came from HP-UX or something).
>>>
>>>Any opinions?
>>
>>Ok, no doubt this manpage needs to be overhauled. I am going from the
>>Linux page and finding several omissions in the one currently in Cygwin
>>("%F", as well as "%ll?").
>>
>>WCTS, does anyone know to what extent locale stuff is supported? The
>>"%'" modifier? "%*d", etc? "%$1d", etc? "%*1$d", etc?
>
>Ok, experimenting shows that all of the above EXCEPT "%'" are supported
>(no great surprise). However, I also noticed that "%a", which is
>required by C99, is not supported?
>
>I have a modified Linux manpage almost ready to go; I assume that goes
>to cygwin.patches?
No, that would be appropriate only if the man page was found in the
winsup hierarchy. The first line of printf(3) says "NEWLIB" when
I type "man 3 printf" so that's where a man page patch should go.
cgf
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