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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 2003 13:18:20 -0600 (CST)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030128131820.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <15926.54074.941041.75523@chlx255.ch.intel.com>

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On 28-Jan-2003 John Reynolds~ wrote:
> 
> [ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ]
>> 
>> Unless it's already been done.  :-)  Can you check the RCS Id in
>> /usr/src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c?  Here's what I have:
>> 
>> $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c,v 1.26 2002/09/04 23:29:05 dwmalone
>> Exp $
>> 
>> Now, if we have identical versions, we have a bona fide mystery on our hands
>> here.  :-)
>> 
> 
> Well, this is what I have:
> 
>   "$FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c,v 1.12.6.6 2002/04/29 16:45:16
> jmallett
> 
> according to the CVS repo, 1.26 has RELENG_5_0* tags as well as "HEAD" while
> the latest on the RELENG_4 branch is still what I have--1.12.6.6.

Ah, OK.  So there *is* a difference.  I can't imagine there being anything
unsafe about using the 5.0 version under -stable.  But it would be best to
confirm this.  Perhaps you should file a PR?

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas"


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