Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command

[Sven Rudolph <sr1@loom.sax.de>]

Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:04:07PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> >   The latest ash package (0.3.5-7) has a broken 'echo' builtin
> > implementation. 

> It's not broken.  The Single Unix Specification says that echo must not
> support any options.  The kernel makefile should be fixed.

Did we decide to follow Single Unix Specification. I thought we were
on POSIX, and my draft allows -n (implementation defined).

According to rationale this compromise fulfills BSD and SYSV
tradition.

The Single Unix Specification explicitely forbids BSD heritage while
it standardises the SYSV way.

Following the free software tradition insisting on the Single Unix
Specification seems to be a bad choice.

	Sven
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