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34 .Nd sanitizes user-supplied printf(3)-style format string
40 .Fn fmtcheck "const char *fmt_suspect" "const char *fmt_default"
50 will consume the same argument types as
54 is a valid format string.
58 family of functions can not verify the types of arguments that they are
62 it is useful or necessary to use a user-supplied format string with no
63 guarantee that the format string matches the specified parameters.
67 function was designed to be used in these cases, as in:
68 .Bd -literal -offset indent
69 printf(fmtcheck(user_format, standard_format), arg1, arg2);
72 In the check, field widths, fillers, precisions, etc. are ignored (unless
73 the field width or precision is an asterisk
75 instead of a digit string).
76 Also, any text other than the format specifiers is completely ignored.
78 Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the
80 For example, "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n" is
81 compatible with "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers
82 and %.*g floats (%n)."
83 However, "%o" is not equivalent to "%lx" because
84 the first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
88 is a valid format and consumes the same argument types as
94 Otherwise, it will return