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



* Sven Rudolph said:

> > > the optional features allowed by POSIX so that it can run shell scripts
> > > that aren't POSIX compliant?
> > Hmm... If it supports both optional and mandatory features allowed by POSIX
> > it's still POSIX compliant, right? Then I vote for ash to support all POSIX
> > features.
> 
[snip]
> POSIX says:
> If ... "-n" ..., the results are implementation defined.
> 
> So a POSIX-conforming application can choose to clean the harddisk and
> reboot.
> 
> There is nothing like "all POSIX features". POSIX has enough places to
> allow every nonsense.
Maybe I'll change what I said to "all optional features whose absence breaks
things in an evident way".

marek

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