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| author | chris <chris@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-01-19 04:16:48 +0000 |
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| committer | chris <chris@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-01-19 04:16:48 +0000 |
| commit | 87094c8006032a0f6adcc9c0009c9923868e27a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 34f56a9bd43e41807dd8ff632d64b8acd9c92ad4 /usr.bin/printf | |
| parent | 0e638ddc72e7558a3ede2a5989fb4c925da839d9 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-87094c8006032a0f6adcc9c0009c9923868e27a4.zip FreeBSD-src-87094c8006032a0f6adcc9c0009c9923868e27a4.tar.gz | |
Document truncation of strings when a NUL character is reached in a format
string.
PR: 15929
Submitted by: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/printf')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/printf/printf.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 index 9f0d9a9..27440e2 100644 --- a/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 +++ b/usr.bin/printf/printf.1 @@ -281,3 +281,9 @@ then back again, floating-point precision may be lost. .Pp .Tn ANSI hexadecimal character constants were deliberately not provided. +.Pp +The escape sequence \e000 is the string terminator. When present in the +.Ar format , +the +.Ar format +will be truncated at the \e000 character. |
