Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
>
> >CR #6800113 ("We need a /usr/xpg4/bin/printf utility for SUS
> >conformance")
>
> Is there a incompatibility between xpg4 printf and /usr/bin/printf?
http://svn.genunix.org/repos/on/branches/ksh93/gisburn/arc/printf/onepager.txt
explains the difference:
-- snip --
Notes:
- The only difference between /usr/bin/printf and /usr/xpg4/bin/printf
is
that /usr/bin/printf's "%s" precision option counts in screen columns
for SystemV backwards compatibity (e.g. a "screen column" means a
character which only spans one column - there are multibyte characters
which span more than one column).
-- snip --
Or short: The current /usr/bin/printf is _not_ POSIX/SUS conformant and
cannot be fixed because it must behave (in this case) like the original
Solaris version. Therefore we need a /usr/xpg4/bin/printf to handle this
case (ksh93's "printf" version will behave like /usr/xpg4/bin/printf
_without_ being bound to a PATH element (Don Cragun signed this off)).
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Bye,
Roland
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