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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paul Gilmartin <PaulGBoulder@aim.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] echo: fix octal escaping with \1...\7
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:03:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAEAACA.7060401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ACAAFE20-00AB-46BC-BEE4-3BFAA1F0141A@aim.com>

On 10/31/2011 07:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> I used to know a statement in POSIX that builtins should behave
> identically to the executables in /bin (or perhaps /usr/bin)
> except for performance.

Only in regards to standardized use of those utilities.  'echo "\1"' is 
not standardized, so it is allowed to differ between the dash built-in 
and /bin/echo.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-25 21:58 [PATCH] echo: fix octal escaping with \1...\7 Mike Frysinger
2011-10-26  7:59 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2011-10-31  3:41 ` Herbert Xu
2011-10-31  4:23   ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-31 13:12     ` Eric Blake
2011-10-31 13:35       ` Paul Gilmartin
2011-10-31 14:03         ` Eric Blake [this message]
2011-10-31 14:56         ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2011-10-31 18:07       ` Harald van Dijk
2011-10-31 18:39       ` Mike Frysinger
2011-10-31 18:48         ` Harald van Dijk

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