"Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> writes:
> > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >> The strvis man page doesn't indicate that \s is a supported encoding,
> >> either. Where is that coming from?
> >
> > It's in lib/libc/gen/vis.c, so it seems to be missing in the manual page
> > for vis(3). I've added it there.
>
> That encoding is a bit on the bizarre side. All the other encodings
> used are parsable by C. This one is not. Should it even be done this
> way at all?
*shrug* It appears to have been done this way since the initial import
of the file. What else might actually rely on it doing '\s'?
-Jan
(This should probably go to some other mailing list, but I'm not sure
which one.)
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Larry Wall
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