Bug#504052: grub-pc: grub_printf does not support maximum length modifier for string format

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 01:28:15PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.96+20080601
> Severity: normal
> 
> printf treats a precision specifier on a string format as a maximum
> length.  For instance, %.4s will print at most 4 characters from the
> string.  This makes it much easier to deal with fixed-width strings.
> However, grub_printf does not support this syntax.

Could you test the patch in:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-08/msg00514.html

and report if it works for you?

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