printf wasn't correctly handling \c in an argument to the %b format
specifier.

   printf %bXX OK\\c

returned 'OK\cXX' rather than the expected 'OK'.

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston <[email protected]>
---
 coreutils/printf.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/coreutils/printf.c b/coreutils/printf.c
index 3dd43a9..9ee7350 100644
--- a/coreutils/printf.c
+++ b/coreutils/printf.c
@@ -131,8 +131,8 @@ static double my_xstrtod(const char *arg)
        return result;
 }
 
-/* Handles %b */
-static void print_esc_string(const char *str)
+/* Handles %b; return 1 if output is to be short-circuited by \c */
+static int print_esc_string(const char *str)
 {
        char c;
        while ((c = *str) != '\0') {
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ static void print_esc_string(const char *str)
                                        str++;
                                }
                        }
+                       else if (*str == 'c') {
+                               return 1;
+                       }
                        {
                                /* optimization: don't force arg to be on-stack,
                                 * use another variable for that. */
@@ -155,6 +158,8 @@ static void print_esc_string(const char *str)
                }
                putchar(c);
        }
+
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static void print_direc(char *format, unsigned fmt_length,
@@ -280,7 +285,8 @@ static char **print_formatted(char *f, char **argv, int 
*conv_err)
                        }
                        if (*f == 'b') {
                                if (*argv) {
-                                       print_esc_string(*argv);
+                                       if (print_esc_string(*argv))
+                                               return saved_argv; /* causes 
main() to exit */
                                        ++argv;
                                }
                                break;
-- 
2.5.0

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