Re: [PATCH] grep: make show_line more portable

Hi,

On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Brian Gernhardt [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:22 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:

quoted

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Brian Gernhardt
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On OS X the printf specifier "%.0s" outputs the entire string instead
of 0 characters as POSIX states.

Does not reproduce for me:

Nor for me, as I noted on the other thread...  And looking again, I
was reading the man page for printf(1), not printf(3).  Ouch.
*grumble, grumble*  I'm crawling back under my rock now.

Heh, people make mistakes and others are here to help spot them.
Collectively we all win.

One of my favorite quotes these days:

The computer "doth make fools of us all," so that any fool without the 
ability to share a laugh on himself will be unable to tolerate programming 
for long. ''(Gerald M. Weinberg)''

Thanks for a breakage report, initial fix and a confirmation.

Yes, I think this discussion was valuable, not only because it fixed a 
bug, but also because I learnt that %.*s with a negative length defaults 
to the total string.

Ciao,
Dscho