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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:12:20 -0500 From: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: sscanf: implement basic character sets +++ Jessica Yu [26/02/16 15:28 -0500]: >+++ Jessica Yu [26/02/16 15:20 -0500]: >>Implement basic character sets for the '%[' conversion specifier. >> >>The '%[' conversion specifier matches a nonempty sequence of characters >>from the specified set of accepted (or with '^', rejected) characters >>between the brackets. The substring matched is to be made up of characters >>in (or not in) the set. This is useful for matching substrings that are >>delimited by something other than spaces. >> >>This implementation differs from its glibc counterpart in the following ways: >>(1) No support for character ranges (e.g., 'a-z' or '0-9') >>(2) The hyphen '-' is not a special character >>(3) The closing bracket ']' cannot be matched >>(4) No support (yet) for discarding matching input ('%*[') >> >>Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com> > >Since this version is largely based on Rasmus' sample bitmap code >(with only very minor tweaks), what is the best way to provide >attribution in this case? A Suggested-by: tag or another >Signed-off-by: tag (since actual code is involved)? Andrew, friendly ping on this patch and question? :-) Thanks, Jessica
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