Move appropriate information out of DESCRIPTION' and into SECURITY

CONSIDERATIONS'.

Sponsored by:	DARPA, NAI Labs
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Chris Costello 2002-07-03 15:31:47 +00:00
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@ -81,18 +81,6 @@ the field width or precision is an asterisk
.Ql *
instead of a digit string). Also, any text other than the format specifiers
is completely ignored.
.Pp
Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the
same parameters. For example,
.Qq Li "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n"
is compatible with
.Qq Li "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)" .
However,
.Qq Li %o
is not equivalent to
.Qq Li %lx
because
the first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If
.Fa fmt_suspect
@ -104,5 +92,17 @@ will return
.Fa fmt_suspect .
Otherwise, it will return
.Fa fmt_default .
.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the
same parameters. For example,
.Qq Li "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n"
is compatible with
.Qq Li "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)" .
However,
.Qq Li %o
is not equivalent to
.Qq Li %lx
because
the first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr printf 3