bug#72567: printf: Incorrect description of "%b"

2024-08-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
forcemerge 72567 72568 close 72567 stop On 11/08/2024 04:05, Keith Thompson wrote: There are three different descriptions of the printf(1) "%b" format: - printf --help - man printf.1 - info coreutils printf As of release 9.5 and the latest version in git (Thu 2024-08-08 c5725c8c4), the first t

bug#72567: printf: Incorrect description of "%b"

2024-08-10 Thread Keith Thompson
There are three different descriptions of the printf(1) "%b" format: - printf --help - man printf.1 - info coreutils printf As of release 9.5 and the latest version in git (Thu 2024-08-08 c5725c8c4), the first two incorrectly say that octal escapes are of the form \0 or \0NNN. In fact the \0 can