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Re: Incorrect option processing in builtin printf(1)

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2019-07-23 00:56:59 +0700, kre@munnari.OZ.AU:
[...]
> 	POSIX specifies that printf(1) has no options, and by not
> 	specifying that it is intended to comply with XBD 12.2 effectivly
> 	says that it is not.   That is, in printf, the first arg is
> 	always the format string, whatever it contains.
[...]

If that was the case, then that would be bug in the POSIX
specification. I can't find a single printf implementations
where printf -- outputs -- (I tried bash, zsh, ksh93, GNU, yash,
busybox, busybox ash, Solaris /bin/printf).

Even if POSIX didn't mandate

printf -- -%s x

to output -x, I'd say it would be a bug in the POSIX
specification (it looks like it is).

-- 
Stephane

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Incorrect option processing in builtin printf(1) kre@munnari.OZ.AU - 2019-07-23 00:56 +0700
  Re: Incorrect option processing in builtin printf(1) Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2019-07-22 20:48 +0100
  Re: Incorrect option processing in builtin printf(1) Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> - 2019-07-22 14:55 -0500
  Re: Incorrect option processing in builtin printf(1) Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> - 2019-07-22 21:10 +0100

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