On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Oliver Kiddle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for fixing the previous issues.
> I still get one complaint from the Debian lintian tool for the ksh man
> page. For line 7, it complains that the xx macro is undefined.
>
> If you're interested, Debian bug reports are at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ksh
> The proper procedure is for me to verify them and forward them but I've
> not been able to reproduce them. That is except for the one complaining
> that printf treating field widths as characters instead of bytes as
> prescribed by POSIX. My own opinion is that treating them as characters
> is much more useful and it'd be a pity to "fix" it to use bytes.

AFAIK you can use %Ls instead of %s if you want characters instead of bytes.

>
> Of the Ubuntu bugs, you should look at:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ksh/+bug/218837
> Essentially, line 1035 of src/cmd/ksh93/sh/name.c looks dodgy - was
> `if(np=nq)' intended to be a comparison?

This is an assignment. Replacing it with np==nq breaks the ksh93 test suite.

Olga
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