Re: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.

Hi Bob, > Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > ... But a regular file ./foo on disk does look different and it > > still seems odd that > > printf '\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n' >foo > > does a dozen one-byte write(2)s. > > But the only reason you know that there is a long string of newlines > is that your

Re: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.

[adding coreutils] On 07/20/2011 07:34 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: BTW, the code for the built-in printf has a bug. For negative field-widths it negates a negative integer without checking it will fit. E.g. on this 64-bit machine $ printf '%-9223372036854775808s.\n' foo foo. $ C

Re: Built-in printf Sits Awkwardly with UDP.

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'

Re: License of bash manpage (Re: License details for bash-4.2)

Chet Ramey wrote: > I wrote the entire test suite except for the one file from Glen Fowler. > It is (or should be) copyright GPL3 just like the rest of the distribution. Just wanted to say thanks for the clear and quick responses. They helped. Jonathan

Allocating new fds through redirection

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integer addition crash

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Re: integer addition crash

Hi Cédric, Cédric Martínez Campos wrote: > $ echo $((08+1)) > bash: 08: too big element for the base (the error element is "08") > [translated from spanish] Strings of digits starting with a '0' in an arithmetic expansion are octal numbers. The bash FAQ[*] has some details. Hope th

Re: integer addition crash

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Cédric Martínez Campos wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: x86_64 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_6