> >- 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)).
Will /usr/bin/printf modified so that is behaved EXACTLY xpg4 print except for the incompatible change? I think that we need to do that; we added to many options to xpg4/xpg6 binaries which we did not implement in the /usr/bin version. We shouldn't do that: /usr/bin/xxx should be as close as possible to the xpg4/xpg6 versions. Casper
