Re: [PATCH] printf: add %#s alias to %b

2023-09-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 9/7/23 13:59, Eric Blake wrote: > now that Issue 8 has taken efforts to make it clear that sometimes the > shell deals with characters, and sometimes with bytes; in particular, > environment variables can hold bytes that need not always form > characters in the current locale). If they didn't t

Re: [PATCH] printf: add %#s alias to %b

2023-09-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 9/6/23 05:28, Dragan Simic wrote: > Thank you for this detailed clarification. It's good to know that the > 2013, 2016 and 2018 versions/revisions of POSIX actually don't count. You didn't change the URL. You didn't update the SUSvX number. It's still says "issue 7" at the top. That's YOU tel

Re: [PATCH] printf: add %#s alias to %b

2023-09-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 9/5/23 15:44, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 9/5/23 4:32 PM, Dragan Simic wrote: >> On 2023-09-05 22:25, Chet Ramey wrote: >>> On 9/5/23 3:58 PM, enh wrote: On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 6:59 AM Chet Ramey wrote: >>> > I think you'll find that, regardless of its origins, there are more > scripts