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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-06-07 22:45:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-06-07 22:45:42 +0000 |
| commit | c15f96ddf8d364ccaf1ac8374c33603cec314ad3 (patch) | |
| tree | 8243848c196e7f9a0edd0a5c64fc6f810c90a991 /man3/printf.3 | |
| parent | 190c7abe49265d77b25470a9e69da4ee54522107 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-c15f96ddf8d364ccaf1ac8374c33603cec314ad3.tar.gz | |
Add documentation of %m.
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/printf.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/printf.3 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man3/printf.3 b/man3/printf.3 index 67788027a1..2d591f7b28 100644 --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -697,6 +697,11 @@ The number of characters written so far is stored into the integer indicated by the .I "int *" (or variant) pointer argument. No argument is converted. +.TP +.B m +(Glibc extension.) Print output of +.IR strerror(errno) . +No argument is required. .TP .B % A `%' is written. No argument is converted. The complete conversion @@ -840,7 +845,7 @@ Linux libc5 knows about the five C standard flags and the ' flag, locale, %m$ and *m$. It knows about the length modifiers h,l,L,Z,q, but accepts L and q both for long doubles and for long long integers (this is a bug). -It no longer recognizes FDOU, but adds a new conversion character +It no longer recognizes FDOU, but adds the conversion character .BR m , which outputs .IR strerror(errno) . |