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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next prev parent 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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