Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems sensible. This is what I get on a reasonably recent tree: > > $ ./seq -f% 1 > ./seq: memory exhausted > > Note however that on gutsy I get the expected: > > $ seq -f% 1 > seq: invalid format string: `%' > Try `seq --help' for more information. > > So perhaps you could use the existing patch/logic from gutsy?
FWIW, with the patched version I get: $ ./src/seq -f% 1 ./src/seq: no % directive Should we be additionally calling usage (EXIT_FAILURE); where now error() with first argument as EXIT_FAILURE is being invoked? Steven Schubiger _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils