hush: add a printf builtin

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 Various bits of what is known about busybox shells, in no particular order.
 
-2006-05-06
+2008-02-14
+ash: does not restore tty pgrp if killed by HUP. Symptom: Midnight Commander
+is backgrounded if you started ash under it, and then killed it with HUP.
+
+2007-11-23
+hush: fixed bogus glob handling; fixed exec <"$1"; added test and echo builtins
+
+2007-06-13
+hush: exec <"$1" doesn't do parameter subst
+
+2007-05-24
+hush: environment-related memory leak plugged, with net code size
+decrease.
+
+2007-05-24
+hush: '( echo ${name )' will show syntax error message, but prompt
+doesn't return (need to press <enter>). Pressing Ctrl-C, <enter>,
+'( echo ${name )' again, Ctrl-C segfaults.
+
+2007-05-21
+hush: environment cannot be handled by libc routines as they are leaky
+(by API design and thus unfixable): hush will leak memory in this script,
+bash does not:
+pid=$$
+while true; do
+    unset t;
+    t=111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+    export t
+    ps -o vsz,pid,comm | grep " $pid "
+done
+The fix is to not use setenv/putenv/unsetenv but manipulate env ourself. TODO.
+hush: meanwhile, first three command subst bugs mentioned below are fixed. :)
+
+2007-05-06
 hush: more bugs spotted. Comparison with bash:
 bash-3.2# echo "TEST`date;echo;echo`BEST"
 TESTSun May  6 09:21:05 CEST 2007BEST         [we dont strip eols]