Hi, On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Brian Gernhardt <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Jay Soffian wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Brian Gernhardt > >> <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On OS X the printf specifier "%.0s" outputs the entire string instead > >>> of 0 characters as POSIX states. > >> > >> Does not reproduce for me: > > > > Nor for me, as I noted on the other thread... And looking again, I > > was reading the man page for printf(1), not printf(3). Ouch. > > *grumble, grumble* I'm crawling back under my rock now. > > Heh, people make mistakes and others are here to help spot them. > Collectively we all win. One of my favorite quotes these days: The computer "doth make fools of us all," so that any fool without the ability to share a laugh on himself will be unable to tolerate programming for long. ''(Gerald M. Weinberg)'' > Thanks for a breakage report, initial fix and a confirmation. Yes, I think this discussion was valuable, not only because it fixed a bug, but also because I learnt that %.*s with a negative length defaults to the total string. Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
