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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>1999-01-27 10:14:01 +0000
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* locale/programs/locale-spec.c (locale_special): Take care of possible trigraph sequence. Patch by Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>.
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@@ -1331,12 +1331,12 @@ matched to the format string the function stops. The remainder of the
format and input strings are not processed.
The return value of the function is a pointer to the first character not
-processed in this function call. In the case of an error the return
-value points to the first character not matched. In case the input
-string contains more than required by the format string the return value
-points right after the last consumed input character. In case the whole
-input string is consumed the return value points to the NUL byte at the
-end of the string.
+processed in this function call. In case the input string contains more
+characters than required by the format string the return value points
+right after the last consumed input character. In case the whole input
+string is consumed the return value points to the NUL byte at the end of
+the string. If @code{strptime} fails to match all of the format string
+and therefore an error occurred the function returns @code{NULL}.
@end deftypefun
The specification of the function in the XPG standard is rather vague.