From: Joe Perches

Sent: 29 August 2020 21:34

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On 8/29/20 9:23 PM, Joe Perches wrote:

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While doing an investigation for a possible treewide conversion of
sysfs output using sprintf/snprintf/scnprintf, I discovered
several instances of sysfs output without terminating newlines.

It seems likely all of these should have newline terminations
or have the \n\r termination changed to a single newline.

I think that it could break badly written scripts in rare cases.

Maybe.

Is sysfs output a nominally unchangeable api like seq_?
Dunno.  seq_ output is extended all the time.

I think whitespace isn't generally considered part of
sscanf type input content awareness.

The shell will remove trailing '\n' (but not '\r') from:
	foo=$(cat bar)
So shell scripts are unlikely to be affected.

	David

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