[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#9129: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.
From: |
Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
bug#9129: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP. |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:42:47 +0100 |
Hi Eric,
> > $ printf '%-9223372036854775808s.\n' foo
> > foo.
> > $
>
> Coreutils' printf shares this misfortune. Sadly, it might even be a
> bug in the underlying glibc printf(), although I haven't tried to
> write a test program to check that, yet.
OK, well for %b and %q bash's built-in printf calls it's own printstr()
and that does do things like `fw = -fw' without checking if fw was
already the largest negative.
Cheers, Ralph.