From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:15:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (print_it): Properly handle a backslash at the
X-Git-Tag: v6.0~1102
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce79c562f680b0247849a1ae2943699073371b70;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

(print_it): Properly handle a backslash at the
end of a --printf format string.  Reported by Paul Eggert.
---

diff --git a/src/stat.c b/src/stat.c
index 0773860ad5..0ce83d173f 100644
--- a/src/stat.c
+++ b/src/stat.c
@@ -665,6 +665,13 @@ print_it (char const *format, char const *filename,
 		}
 	      putchar (esc_value);
 	    }
+	  else if (*b == '\0')
+	    {
+	      error (0, 0, _("warning: backslash at end of format"));
+	      putchar ('\\');
+	      /* Arrange to exit the loop.  */
+	      --b;
+	    }
 	  else
 	    {
 	      print_esc_char (*b);