Testing of coreutils on NetBSD 5.1 revealed two NetBSD libc bugs:
Localization does not behave as specified by POSIX. See
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-01/msg00046.html>.
I'm only updating the doc now.
2012-01-05 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
doc: Mention NetBSD bugs.
* doc/posix-functions/*printf.texi: Mention a NetBSD 5.1 bug.
* doc/posix-functions/nl_langinfo.texi: Mention another NetBSD 5.1 bug.
--- doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:39 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/dprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:21 2012
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/fprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
Attempting to write to a read-only stream fails with @code{EOF} but
does not set the error flag for @code{ferror} on some platforms:
glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/fwprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/fwprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore
cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/nl_langinfo.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/nl_langinfo.texi Thu Jan 5 18:59:44 2012
@@ -41,4 +41,9 @@
On NetBSD 5.0, in some locales, @code{nl_langinfo(CRNCYSTR)} returns the
empty string, although the local currency symbol, as returned by
@code{localeconv()->currency_symbol}, is non-empty.
+
+@item
+On NetBSD 5.1, in the "C" locale, the results of
+@code{nl_langinfo(ABMON_1)} ... @code{nl_langinfo(ABMON_12)} are full month
+names, not abbreviated month names.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/printf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/printf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
Attempting to write to a read-only stream fails with @code{EOF} but
does not set the error flag for @code{ferror} on some platforms:
glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/snprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -94,4 +94,8 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/sprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -69,4 +69,8 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/swprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/swprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -23,4 +23,8 @@
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item
On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vdprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vfprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
Attempting to write to a read-only stream fails with @code{EOF} but
does not set the error flag for @code{ferror} on some platforms:
glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/vfwprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vfwprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore
cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
Attempting to write to a read-only stream fails with @code{EOF} but
does not set the error flag for @code{ferror} on some platforms:
glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vsnprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -91,4 +91,8 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vsprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -69,4 +69,8 @@
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/vswprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vswprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -20,4 +20,8 @@
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item
On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
+@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
@end itemize
--- doc/posix-functions/vwprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/vwprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore
cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
--- doc/posix-functions/wprintf.texi.orig Thu Jan 5 19:06:40 2012
+++ doc/posix-functions/wprintf.texi Thu Jan 5 19:06:22 2012
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
On AIX and Windows platforms, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore
cannot
accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item
+When formatting an integer with grouping flag, this function inserts thousands
+separators even in the "C" locale on some platforms:
+NetBSD 5.1.
+@item
On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
Cygwin 1.7.9.
