GNU bug report logs - #7325
new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 7325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Subject: bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:24:19 -0800
On 11/12/2010 06:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I'd like to defer the addition of this feature,
> at least until it's more predictable.
> 
> Is that ok with you, Paul?

Doesn't bother me.  We can revisit this again in twenty years.
Perhaps by then, pathconf will support interrogation of
file systems for their time stamp resolutions, as POSIX requires.

In the meantime we can add it to 'diff' instead, where it
wouldn't be as problematic.




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