RedHat Pinstripe Beta-5

From a bash shell, type:
	printf "-w 123\n"

and you get:
	bash: printf: illegal option: -w
	printf: usage: printf format [arguments]

Now with ash, or bash on RedHat 6.2 and earlier, or if you use
/usr/bin/printf,   you would get:
	-w 123

The bash man-page, printf section,  still does not indicate that there are
_any_ valid options - so why does it attempt to process them?

I am logging this as a serious defect because it breaks
backwards-compatability. There may be a number of customer-written scripts
which suddenly start to fail if they upgrade to RedHat 7.0.