From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 22:45:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add documentation of %m.
X-Git-Tag: man-pages-2.34~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c15f96ddf8d364ccaf1ac8374c33603cec314ad3;p=thirdparty%2Fman-pages.git

Add documentation of %m.
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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) .