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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_scanw.3x b/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_scanw.3x index b7f3795d8101..9f25b57089bb 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_scanw.3x +++ b/contrib/ncurses/man/curs_scanw.3x @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\"*************************************************************************** -.\" Copyright (c) 1998,2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. * .\" * .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a * .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the * @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.11 2000/07/15 21:48:17 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_scanw.3x,v 1.13 2006/02/25 21:42:22 tom Exp $ .TH curs_scanw 3X "" .SH NAME \fBscanw\fR, @@ -36,15 +36,14 @@ \fBvwscanw\fR, \fBvw_scanw\fR - convert formatted input from a \fBcurses\fR window .SH SYNOPSIS \fB#include <curses.h>\fR - -\fBint scanw(char *fmt\fR [\fB, arg\fR] \fB...);\fR +.sp +\fBint scanw(char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint wscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt\fR [\fB, arg\fR] \fB...);\fR +\fBint wscanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint mvscanw(int y, int x, char *fmt\fR [\fB, arg\fR] \fB...);\fR +\fBint mvscanw(int y, int x, char *fmt, ...);\fR .br -\fBint mvwscanw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x,\fR - \fBchar *fmt\fR [\fB, arg]\fR \fB...);\fR +\fBint mvwscanw(WINDOW *win, int y, int x, char *fmt, ...);\fR .br \fBint vw_scanw(WINDOW *win, char *fmt, va_list varglist);\fR .br @@ -55,15 +54,15 @@ The \fBscanw\fR, \fBwscanw\fR and \fBmvscanw\fR routines are analogous to \fBwgetstr\fR were called on the window, and the resulting line used as input for \fBsscanf\fR(3). Fields which do not map to a variable in the \fIfmt\fR field are lost. - -The \fBvwscanw\fR routine is similar to \fBvwprintw\fR in that it performs a -\fBwscanw\fR using a variable argument list. The third argument is a -\fIva\fR_\fIlist\fR, a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in -\fB<varargs.h>\fR. +.PP +The \fBvwscanw\fR and \fBvw_scanw\fR routines are analogous to \fBvscanf\fR. +They perform a \fBwscanw\fR using a variable argument list. +The third argument is a \fIva_list\fR, +a pointer to a list of arguments, as defined in \fB<stdarg.h>\fR. .SH RETURN VALUE \fBvwscanw\fR returns \fBERR\fR on failure and an integer equal to the number of fields scanned on success. - +.PP Applications may use the return value from the \fBscanw\fR, \fBwscanw\fR, \fBmvscanw\fR and \fBmvwscanw\fR routines to determine the number of fields which were mapped in the call. @@ -71,6 +70,23 @@ which were mapped in the call. The XSI Curses standard, Issue 4 describes these functions. The function \fBvwscanw\fR is marked TO BE WITHDRAWN, and is to be replaced by a function \fBvw_scanw\fR using the \fB<stdarg.h>\fR interface. +The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 states that +\fBvw_scanw\fR is preferred to \fBvwscanw\fR since the latter requires +including \fB<varargs.h>\fR, which +cannot be used in the same file as \fB<stdarg.h>\fR. +This implementation uses \fB<stdarg.h>\fR for both, because that header +is included in \fB<curses.h\fR>. +.LP +Both XSI and The Single Unix Specification, Version 2 state that these +functions return ERR or OK. +Since the underlying \fBscanf\fR can return the number of items scanned, +and the SVr4 code was documented to use this feature, +this is probably an editing error which was introduced in XSI, +rather than being done intentionally. +Portable applications should only test if the return value is ERR, +since the OK value (zero) is likely to be misleading. +One possible way to get useful results would be to use a "%n" conversion +at the end of the format string to ensure that something was processed. .SH SEE ALSO \fBcurses\fR(3X), \fBcurs_getstr\fR(3X), \fBcurs_printw\fR(3X), \fBscanf\fR(3S) .\"# |