printf: fix this case: printf "%b" '\0057usr\0057bin\n'

It was not accepting \0NNN. Standard printf tool does.

function                                             old     new   delta
printf_main                                          869     886     +17

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/printf.c b/coreutils/printf.c
index 1437951a8..3dd43a978 100644
--- a/coreutils/printf.c
+++ b/coreutils/printf.c
@@ -131,13 +131,28 @@ static double my_xstrtod(const char *arg)
         return result;
 }
 
+/* Handles %b */
 static void print_esc_string(const char *str)
 {
         char c;
         while ((c = *str) != '\0') {
                 str++;
-                if (c == '\\')
-                        c = bb_process_escape_sequence(&str);
+                if (c == '\\') {
+                        /* %b also accepts 4-digit octals of the form \0### */
+                        if (*str == '0') {
+                                if ((unsigned char)(str[1] - '0') < 8) {
+                                        /* 2nd char is 0..7: skip leading '0' */
+                                        str++;
+                                }
+                        }
+                        {
+                                /* optimization: don't force arg to be on-stack,
+                                 * use another variable for that. */
+                                const char *z = str;
+                                c = bb_process_escape_sequence(&z);
+                                str = z;
+                        }
+                }
                 putchar(c);
         }
 }