Bug (?) in sprintf family?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:36 -0400, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Please try the attached patch.  It disconnects the sprintf and sscanf 
> family of functions from bringing in all the I/O stuff.  This is 
> especially useful since tzset drags in sscanf.
> 
> If I missed something, let me know.
> 
> -- Jeff J.

Jeff:

Since the separation of sprintf/scanf from the I/O stuff isn't part of
the C library specification, this patch doesn't really do me any good.
In fact, I'ld prefer that it not be applied. Had this patch already been
applied when I started, it would have had the effect of obscuring a bug.

shap