Re: [PATCH] latest ash has broken 'echo' command
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 04:15:58PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Our policy currently requires #!/bin/sh scripts to be POSIX compliant. If
>> you don't like it, then get it changed. But when that is done, it will b=
> e no
>> longer possible use anything other than bash as /bin/sh.
> Tsk. I agreed with you up to here, but that's a false dichotomy.
> Even if `/bin/sh will be a POSIX compliant shell; with the exception that
> echo will support -n and -e' were made policy, the old ash, and ksh could
> equally be /bin/sh, as could a number of /bin/sh's from other platforms.
Fair enough. If this change was made to the policy. Then I would be happy
to keep the old behaviour.
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