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-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdio/scanf.311
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
index 39929f92810..e81b1cf409b 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/scanf.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.11 2003/06/02 20:18:37 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: scanf.3,v 1.12 2003/09/26 16:24:56 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -250,12 +250,17 @@ Equivalent to
Matches a sequence of non-whitespace characters;
the next pointer must be a pointer to
.Li char ,
-and the array must be large enough to accept all the sequence and the
-terminating
+and the provided array must be large enough to accept and store
+all the sequence and the terminating
.Tn NUL
character.
The input string stops at whitespace
or at the maximum field width, whichever occurs first.
+If specified, the maximum field length refers to the sequence
+being scanned rather than the storage space, hence the provided
+array must be 1 larger for the terminating
+.Tn NUL
+character.
.It Cm c
Matches a sequence of
.Li width