C Community's Cavalier Attitude On Software Reliability

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1990Feb26.234321.1072 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <8147 at hubcap.clemson.edu> wtwolfe at hubcap.clemson.edu (Bill Wolfe) writes:
>>   SCANF(3S)  The success of literal matches and suppressed
>>              assignments is not directly determinable.
>
>Yup, a slightly bad design which is difficult to fix ...

Since nobody else has said it yet, I will:

Fixed in ANSI C, via the "%n" directive.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint