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Date:   Sat, 10 Jun 2023 04:26:33 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Strict XenStore entry parsing
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> This uses the newly-introduced strict version of sscanf().

I can see that.  Why does it do that?

Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst

(in general, there is a lack of detail across all four of these patches
justifying why any of this work is being done.  it isn't obvious to me
why skipping leading whitespace is bad in this context)