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bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 11:24:19 -0800
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On 11/12/2010 06:12 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I'd like to defer the addition of this feature,
> at least until it's more predictable.
> 
> Is that ok with you, Paul?

Doesn't bother me.  We can revisit this again in twenty years.
Perhaps by then, pathconf will support interrogation of
file systems for their time stamp resolutions, as POSIX requires.

In the meantime we can add it to 'diff' instead, where it
wouldn't be as problematic.





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