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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!dkuug!eunet.no!nuug!trane.uninett.no!due.uninett.no!amanda.bbb.no!news.sigmasoft.com!not-for-mail From: tholo@gandalf.bbb.no (Thorsten Lockert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Making the BSD spooler even more POSIX ... Date: 18 Jun 1994 03:26:41 +0200 Organization: SigmaSoft, Th. Lockert Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2ttigh$1ps@gandalf.bbb.no> References: <rcpt.771860340@rwa.urc.tue.nl> <rcpt.771884870@rwa.urc.tue.nl> In <rcpt.771884870@rwa.urc.tue.nl> rcpt@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes: >rcpt@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) writes: > >>In the lpd/printjob.c program there is a very funny line: >> (void) sprintf(buf, "%c%qd %s\n", type, stb.st_size, file); >> ^^^ hidden BSD feature?? > >>I wonder how this can work on a BSD system? > >I have traced the `%qd' as a typo introduced somewhere between bsd-net-2 >and NetBSD-current (of today). It is not a typo, it is to print out the value of a quad_t, or a long long if you want. Ie. a 64-bit entity. Thorsten -- Thorsten Lockert | postmaster@bbb.no | Postbox 435 | hostmaster@bbb.no | Universe, n.: N-5001 Bergen | tholo@bbb.no | The problem. Norway | tholo@sigmasoft.com |