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41 .Nd sanitizes user-supplied
42 .Xr printf 3 Ns -style
49 .Fn fmtcheck "const char *fmt_suspect" "const char *fmt_default"
59 will consume the same argument types as
63 is a valid format string.
67 family of functions cannot verify the types of arguments that they are
68 passed at run-time. In some cases, like
70 it is useful or necessary to use a user-supplied format string with no
71 guarantee that the format string matches the specified arguments.
75 was designed to be used in these cases, as in:
76 .Bd -literal -offset indent
77 printf(fmtcheck(user_format, standard_format), arg1, arg2);
80 In the check, field widths, fillers, precisions, etc. are ignored (unless
81 the field width or precision is an asterisk
83 instead of a digit string). Also, any text other than the format specifiers
84 is completely ignored.
88 is a valid format and consumes the same argument types as
94 Otherwise, it will return
96 .Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
97 Note that the formats may be quite different as long as they accept the
98 same arguments. For example,
99 .Qq Li "%p %o %30s %#llx %-10.*e %n"
101 .Qq Li "This number %lu %d%% and string %s has %qd numbers and %.*g floats (%n)" .
107 the first requires an integer and the second requires a long.
113 function does not understand all of the conversions that