[sparks-discuss] libldap:ber_printf() 'O' in format string [PSARC/2008/607 FastTrack timeout 10/01/2008]

[John Plocher]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> For some reason said file does not appear on the opensolaris.org page
> for this case.  Can someone tell me how to make it appear there?

I'm working on it.  I think it has to do with the embedded 
quotes in the IAM filename...

> In the meantime I've attached it to this post.

The man page description seems odd and inconsistent.

It says
	The format string can contain the following 
	characters: -b ... -n ... -o ... O ...

(note the leading hyphens in front of everything
except the new 'O' character)

The problem is that it doesn't.  The example shows

    ber_printf( ber, "{siiiib{v}}", ...)

no "-" signs at all, anywhere.  The man page should instead
present the characters in the list as quoted characters:

     'O'             Octet string. A struct berval * is supplied.  +
                     An octet string element is output.            +

(it is probably out of scope to complain about the misuse of
the printf() design pattern this way - printf uses '%' as
a formatting character escape/identifier and passes thru
everything else unchanged.  ber_printf() takes *every*
character in its format string as a formatting command,
and errors out on unexpected commands.)

  -John