On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 09:06:54AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > If only there were a standard for such a beast, then we can put that into our > policy. As it stands, all we have is POSIX.2. Raul has proposed a change to > our policy so that -n has been explicitly allowed. No. POSIX already allowed it. You forced a policy proposal to mandate existing legal behavior. This is, IMHO, turning into one of our greatest problems: we can't just work together and find a common-sense solution to our problems. Instead, people intentionally trip each other up and wield the policy document like a club to batter down other developers. If we were paying lawyers to come up with this thing I could understand the poring over of ever point of legalese...but we're not, and I'm mystified. All this talk about echo -n, all the time and bits, and what we end up with is behavior that we already had, and another policy change. Are we trying to create a policy document or a distribution? Mike Stone
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