Re: Implement character sets for sscanf()

[Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>]

+++ Andy Shevchenko [22/02/16 11:27 +0200]:
>On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 20:20 -0500, Jessica Yu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch adds support for the '%[' conversion specifier for
>> sscanf().
>> Since functions that calculate substring lengths based on accepted or
>> rejected characters already exist in the kernel (namely strspn() and
>> strcspn()), it's not much of a stretch to add some basic support for
>> the
>> bracket '%[' conversion specifier for sscanf(). This is useful in
>> cases
>> where we'd like to match substrings delimited by something other than
>> spaces. The original motivation for this patch actually came from
>> livepatch
>> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/790), where we were trying to come up
>> with
>> a clean way to parse symbol names with substrings delimited by
>> periods and
>> commas.
>>
>> Patch based on linux-next-20160219.
>>
>> Here are some test cases:
>
>Test cases should land into lib/test_scanf.c and be submitted as a
>separate patch.
>
>Also, you have something misconfigured when you sent patches. git-send-
>email usually does a perfect job.

Thanks for the tip. Yeah, I had a small hiccup with git-send-email,
which is why the patchset came out like that :-\ In any case, the
attached test cases are more for the benefit of the patch reviewer,
not something I intended to be merged. For v2, I will just send the
single patch out.

Jessica