From 4ca64cfc3de1d9cf75490b85891e88fbf0405538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:00:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] printf now diagnoses underlying printf failure

* builtins/printf.def (printf_builtin):
Report an error if printf returns -1, even when
-v is not used, so that a shell command like
"printf '%10000000000000000000000000000s' ''"
does not fail silently.
---
 builtins/printf.def | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtins/printf.def b/builtins/printf.def
index 49757f5c..b1140dc4 100644
--- a/builtins/printf.def
+++ b/builtins/printf.def
@@ -178,8 +178,7 @@ extern int errno;
     if (nw < 0 || (vflag == 0 && ferror (stdout))) \
       { \
 	QUIT; \
-	if (vflag) \
-	  builtin_error ("%s", strerror (errno)); \
+	builtin_error ("%s", strerror (errno)); \
 	PRETURN (EXECUTION_FAILURE); \
       } \
     tw += nw; \
-- 
2.44.0