Re: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Eric,

> >      $ printf '%-9223372036854775808s.\n' foo
> >      foo.
> >      $
> 
> Coreutils' printf shares this misfortune.  Sadly, it might even be a
> bug in the underlying glibc printf(), although I haven't tried to
> write a test program to check that, yet.

OK, well for %b and %q bash's built-in printf calls it's own printstr()
and that does do things like `fw = -fw' without checking if fw was
already the largest negative.

Cheers, Ralph.