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: Pád, raig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 7325 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s
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.
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