In case anyone wonders : yes. Left-pad left-pads a string. That's all it does. Not to worry though : it's now going to be implemented as a linux kernel syscall

In case anyone wonders : yes. Left-pad left-pads a string. That's all it does. Not to worry though : it's now going to be implemented as a linux kernel syscall: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1108 https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/31/1108