new coreutils snapshot [Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter Fales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:11:24AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: >> I committed this. It should fix it. Please test it, since I don't have access >> to a HP-UX 10 machine. To test it, create a test directory through the >> command > > Thanks for the mail. The

Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-11 Thread Peter Fales
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:11:24AM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > I committed this. It should fix it. Please test it, since I don't have access > to a HP-UX 10 machine. To test it, create a test directory through the command Thanks for the mail. The request to test it may have been directed at me,

Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Eric Blake wrote: >> According to Peter Fales on 2/4/2008 4:00 PM: >> |It looks like the system snprintf is buggy. I suspect the '-' >> ... >> And that violates C99/POSIX. Duplication of the `-' flag should not >> disable it. > > In some defense of H

Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Eric Blake wrote: > According to Peter Fales on 2/4/2008 4:00 PM: > |It looks like the system snprintf is buggy. I suspect the '-' > ... > And that violates C99/POSIX. Duplication of the `-' flag should not > disable it. In some defense of HP-UX 10.20 it was released IIRC in 1996 which was

Re: printf failure on HP/UX 10.20 with 6.9.92

2008-02-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-gnulib, since this affects more than just coreutils] According to Peter Fales on 2/4/2008 4:00 PM: | 2) I can see what's happening, though I'm not quite sure how it's supposed |to work. When the gnulib vsnprintf("%*s",-3,"x") is cal