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bug #28492: pr header lacks spaces around long file names

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 06 Jan 2010 12:53:34 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  ericb
Open/Closed:  Open

Thu 07 Jan 2010 04:42:40 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Patched in git, will be in coreutils 8.3.

Eric Blake <ericb>
Group administrator
Wed 06 Jan 2010 02:42:51 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the report (although the mailing list tends to be the preferred medium for potential patches).  You are indeed correct that this is a violation of POSIX.

Your patch is reversed in sense (you want the original file to be listed first, not second).  Also, your attempt at an electronic copyright disclaimer does not hold enough weight to work with the FSF; fortunately, though, your contribution is small enough to not need copyright assignment in the first place.

Eric Blake <ericb>
Group administrator
Wed 06 Jan 2010 12:53:34 AM UTC, original submission:  


Printing a file whose path or name is longer than 48 chars
leaves the file name adjoining the <date> and/or <page>
elements of the header.

Names shorter than 48 chars are centered between spaces in
the available width.

Names longer than 48 chars lack padding spaces.

Names longer than 50 chars appear without spaces in a wider format header.

Repeat by:

    base='123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_1234567'
    longs=$( echo ${base}{8,89,89_,89_1} )
    for f in ${longs} ; do echo >> $f; done
    pr ${longs} | cat -s

produces (modulo date formats and 'Page' translation):

2010-01-05 16:48 123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_12345678 Page 1

2010-01-05 16:48123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789 Page 1

2010-01-05 16:48123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_Page 1

2010-01-05 16:48123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_123456789_1Page 1


POSIX appears to specify a printf format for pr headers equivalent to:

    "\n\n%s %s Page %d\n\n\n",
    <output of date>, <file>, <page number>

which shows explicit spaces around the file name field.

I added statements to pr.c to coerce the spacing to be greater than 0,
but there may certainly be a more elegant approach that considers
the issues of headers for multiple columns.

--- pr.c        2010-01-05 16:27:54.000000000 -0800
+++ pr.orig.c   2010-01-05 15:10:50.000000000 -0800
@@ -2403,9 +2403,6 @@
   lhs_spaces = available_width >> 1;
   rhs_spaces = available_width - lhs_spaces;

-  lhs_spaces = lhs_spaces > 0 ? lhs_spaces : 1;
-  rhs_spaces = rhs_spaces > 0 ? rhs_spaces : 1;
-
   printf ("\n\n%*.*s%s%*.*s%s%*.*s%s\n\n\n",
           chars_per_margin, chars_per_margin, " ",
           date_text, lhs_spaces, lhs_spaces, " ",
           file_text, rhs_spaces, rhs_spaces, " ", page_text);

--
I am entitled to copyright of this bug report and patch, but
disclaim any such interest, and place them in the public domain,
with the intent that GNU/FSF may use them as they please.

best wishes,
Denis McKeon


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