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printf %*s bug


From: Andrew Schepler
Subject: printf %*s bug
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:44:23 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.18i

printf(1) of the shell-utils stuffs has a bug that appears when a
conversion code fails to convert a number argument with '*' and then
attempts to print a string anyway.

Examples:
printf %*s a foo
printf %.*s text asdf

Both of these will typically print garbage to the terminal, sometimes
munging things up to require a 'reset'. They will occasionally result in
the death of their parent shell.

Thanks
Andrew Schepler



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