Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:59:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Subject: Re: /bin/sh's printf Message-ID: <199604120759.JAA09635@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604111948.OAA07202@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Apr 11, 96 02:48:50 pm
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As Eric L. Hernes wrote: > > I've stumbled across a little problem with sh's printf, > could someone explain what's going on here: > > (ttyp0@jake)$ /bin/sh > (ttyp0@jake)$ printf "%04d\n" 12 > 12 > (ttyp0@jake)$ /usr/bin/printf "%04d\n" 12 > 0012 > > > It looks like they're compiled from the same sources even --?? Except that the source has #ifdef SHELL hooks. Argl, yet another bogon in the shell. Please, file a PR for it. I'm going to deal with all the shell PR's i can resolve anytime soon, and will also see if 4.4BSD-Lite2 has already fixed something. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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