From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6900 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2016 23:48:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 40202 Received: (qmail 28830 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2016 23:48:23 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Diagnostics: from mpv1-2015.cwru.edu by f.primenet.com.au (envelope-from , uid 7791) with qmail-scanner-2.11 (clamdscan: 0.99.2/21882. spamassassin: 3.4.1. Clear:RC:0(129.22.103.226):SA:0(-0.0/5.0):. Processed in 1.32853 secs); 15 Dec 2016 23:48:23 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 X-Envelope-From: chet.ramey@case.edu X-Qmail-Scanner-Mime-Attachments: | X-Qmail-Scanner-Zip-Files: | Received-SPF: pass (ns1.primenet.com.au: SPF record at case.edu designates 129.22.103.226 as permitted sender) Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu Subject: Re: PATCH Re: 5.3: printf - References: <20161212234102.GB5457@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> <161212202110.ZM19667@torch.brasslantern.com> <161213204815.ZM24665@torch.brasslantern.com> <20161214093922.40d1eec2@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <20161214165148.GA16528@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> <161214104450.ZM27360@torch.brasslantern.com> <20161215005017.GA6674@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> <20161215224512.GA30237@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> To: Daniel Shahaf Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, zsh-workers@zsh.org From: Chet Ramey Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Message-ID: Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 18:48:13 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161215224512.GA30237@fujitsu.shahaf.local2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv1-2015.case.edu) On 12/15/16 5:45 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > This surprises me; it doesn't match my understanding of the spec. > (I thought POSIX would take "--" to be the format string.) "Standard utilities that do not accept options, but that do accept operands, shall recognize "--" as a first argument to be discarded." http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap01.html#tag_17_04 Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/