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| author | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-03-05 17:19:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Otto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-03-05 17:19:07 +0000 |
| commit | 181fe2b5a609a884d4d6187135b85d483ba95cfa (patch) | |
| tree | 38755aa3ada64209c3d440e113a2cc967e006a13 /lib | |
| parent | 31bda8423e5e8ef458791aa31ce839b81433b363 (diff) | |
tweak wording of scanf return value; prompted by Jan Stary; ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 index 57b3c6d17a9..311f73b3aff 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.20 2012/01/18 14:01:38 stsp Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.21 2013/03/05 17:19:06 otto Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: January 18 2012 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 5 2013 $ .Dt SCANF 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -423,8 +423,9 @@ such as an alphabetic character for a conversion. The value .Dv EOF -is returned if an input failure occurs before any conversion such as an -end-of-file occurs. +is returned if an input failure, +such as an end-of-file, +occurs before any conversion. If an error or end-of-file occurs after conversion has begun, the number of conversions which were successfully completed is returned. .Sh SEE ALSO |