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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/dprintf.3')
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diff --git a/man3/dprintf.3 b/man3/dprintf.3 index fc6863cc2e..b6cada5a22 100644 --- a/man3/dprintf.3 +++ b/man3/dprintf.3 @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ The functions and .BR vdprintf () (as found in the glibc2 library) are exact analogues of -.B fprintf +.BR fprintf () and -.BR vfprintf , +.BR vfprintf (), except that they output to a file descriptor .I fd instead of to a given stream. @@ -49,9 +49,9 @@ instead of to a given stream. These functions are GNU extensions, not in C or POSIX. Clearly, the names were badly chosen. Many systems (like MacOS) have incompatible functions called -.IR dprintf , +.IR dprintf (), usually some debugging version of -.IR printf , +.IR printf (), perhaps with a prototype like .BI "void dprintf (int level, const char *" format ", ...);" @@ -67,6 +67,6 @@ So, probably, it is better to avoid this function in programs intended to be portable. A better name would have been -.IR fdprintf . +.IR fdprintf (). .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR printf (3) |