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A while ago I reported a bug #4838.
How do you "follow up" a bug report?

Anyway, I noticed the following in comp.std.c and I checked in current
and we do have the bug which Chris has fixed. I have not tested (yet)
if it fixes the problem #4838, but it seems likely.

Ian



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From: torek@elf.bsdi.com (Chris Torek)
Subject: Re: sscanf("3","%d%n",&d,&n): should 'n' be set?
Date: 23 Feb 1998 11:47:24 -0800

In article <34F19292.33506964@soton.sc.philips.com>
Stephen Baynes <stephen.baynes@soton.sc.philips.com> wrote:
>The implication of that is that [%n] can't fail, otherwise one would need 
>it to count it under the return value. Going back to the original question,
>that means that %n should not fail even if it is matching against the end 
>of input.

Yes.  Moreover, it means that "%d %n" should *also* set "n".  I
misunderstood this a bit when implementing the 4.4BSD stdio, and
made format-whitespace-directive processing too eager.  For anyone
using that stdio, here is a patch to the vfscanf code.

*** svfscanf.c	1996/06/03 15:24:22	2.1
--- svfscanf.c	1998/01/21 16:36:27	2.2
***************
*** 129,139 ****
  			return (nassigned);
  		if (isspace(c)) {
! 			for (;;) {
! 				if (fp->_r <= 0 && __srefill(fp))
! 					return (nassigned);
! 				if (!isspace(*fp->_p))
! 					break;
  				nread++, fp->_r--, fp->_p++;
- 			}
  			continue;
  		}
--- 129,135 ----
  			return (nassigned);
  		if (isspace(c)) {
! 			while ((fp->_r > 0 || __srefill(fp) == 0) &&
! 			    isspace(*fp->_p))
  				nread++, fp->_r--, fp->_p++;
  			continue;
  		}
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