Re: [PATCH 0/1] Implement character sets for sscanf()

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Feb 22 2016 - 04:27:04 EST


On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 20:20 -0500, Jessica Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch adds support for the '%[' conversion specifier for
> sscanf().
> Since functions that calculate substring lengths based on accepted or
> rejected characters already exist in the kernel (namely strspn() and
> strcspn()), it's not much of a stretch to add some basic support for
> the
> bracket '%[' conversion specifier for sscanf(). This is useful in
> cases
> where we'd like to match substrings delimited by something other than
> spaces. The original motivation for this patch actually came from
> livepatch
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/790), where we were trying to come up
> with
> a clean way to parse symbol names with substrings delimited by
> periods and
> commas.
>
> Patch based on linux-next-20160219.
>
> Here are some test cases:

Test cases should land into lib/test_scanf.c and be submitted as a
separate patch.

Also, you have something misconfigured when you sent patches. git-send-
email usually does a perfect job.

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> sscanf_tests.c
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