On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Jan-Simon Pendry wrote:
>Richard Gooch wrote:
>>
>> Matthew Kirkwood writes:
>> > On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Matt Aubury wrote:
>> >
>> > > create_proc_entries(NULL,
>> > > "test:{bar:{x:%d,y:%d,z:%d},foo:%f}",
>> > > &x, &y, &z, foo_fun);
>> >
>> > Thinking further about it, could the %'s become something
>> > else? It'd be nice to be able to make these strings with
>> > sprintf().
>>
>> No problem. Use "%%".
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard....
>
>i think the suggestion is that %% is ugly, and more important, prone
>to simply errors - the original doesn't need to use %. it could
>use something else, like $, @, & etc.
So keep the %'s and turn it into one that checks the arguments like
printk() does. Just from looking at the function call above, it appears
you may want it acting like scanf/printf anyway.
-George Greer
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