Re: new snapshot available: coreutils-8.27.103-db8d1

[Eric Blake]

On 08/30/2017 09:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

>> FAIL: tests/ln/sf-1
>> [...]
>> + printf %0*d 256 0
>> ash: %0*d: invalid format
> 
>> (I guess printf(1) in Busybox's "ash" does not accept this format).
> 
> Indeed:
> $ sudo dnf install busybox
> $ busybox ash -c 'printf %0*d 256 0'
> ash: %0*d: invalid format
> 
> Since this is the only ash specific issue it seems, I'll avoid like:
> 
> -long_name=$(printf '%0*d' $name_max_plus1 0)
> +long_name=$(yes 0 | head -n$name_max_plus1 | tr -d '\n')

Couldn't we also ensure that we are using coreutils' printf, as in $(env
printf '%0*d' ...), so that we aren't depending upon sh's builtins?


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