bug#7325: new test failure due to non-portability of printf formats like %05.3s

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/13/2010 02:45 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Here's what I'm planning.

Looks good, thanks, except for NEWS:

> +  a nanosecond-precision floating point time stamp for %X use %.X;

It's fixed-point, not floating point, so I'd remove "floating point".

And in coreutils.texi:

> +precision, @command{stat} uses 9 digits, so @samp{%.X} is equivalent to
> address@hidden  When discarding excess precision, time stamps are truncated

There's a period missing after the "@samp{%.9X}" (though ideally the sentence
would be reworded so as to avoid the need for any period after the sample,
as the "%.9X." looks bad when it's printed).