On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:41:33PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Any /bin/sh script must work with a minimal POSIX-compliant shell with > > no builtins other than the required ones. /bin/sh scripts must also > > work with any POSIX-compliant implementations of the following basic > > utilities: echo, test, (whatever else we want to list). > > Exceptionally, /bin/sh scripts may assume that echo -n works to > > suppress the output of a newline. > > This is OPTION 3 in my original bug report. It does indeed solve the > problem. Policy is not a stick with which to beat maintainers. You can't have that unless you can somehow first convince them all to change their scripts. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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