* Anthony Towns said: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:13:24PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > It's not broken. The Single Unix Specification says that echo must not > > support any options. > > Then the Single Unix Specification is broken, and we shouldn't follow > it. Seriously, -e and -n are expected features of echo on GNU/Linux > systems, no matter what the Single Unix Spec might or might not say. I agree 100%. > Dropping them shortly before freeze seems an insane thing to do too, > fwiw. Yes, because it already broke two important parts - the kernel compile, and the upgrade process. > Are the BSD people distributing ash without echo -e/-n? From what I seen in the comments (didn't look at the original version) the echo builtin was last changed by the NetBSD people 3 years ago, so I expect they didn't drop it. marek
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