Subject: bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:11:58 -0800

On 11/10/2010 01:04 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> +      /* %.X   => precision defaults to 9
> +         %.5X  => precision is 5
> +         %#.X  => precision is determined by fstimeprec
> +         %#.3X => precision is 3 (specified overrides "#")  */

How about something like this instead?

  %.X => precision is 9 (until POSIX goes sub-nanosecond :-)
  %.5X => precision is 5
  %.*X => precision determined by fstimeprec

Then there's no reason for the "overrides" case.