* Franklin Belew said:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:48:28AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:45:55PM -0700, David Benson wrote:
> > > Perhaps I'm jumping in prematurely, but I'd like to cast
> > > my vote _strongly_ against the default `/bin/echo' not
> > > accepting -n.
> >
> > When were we discussing /bin/echo? This thread is about ash which has nothing
> > to do with /bin/echo.
> > --
> According to your precious SuS, sh doesn't even have a built-in echo command.
> Therefor we are talking about /bin/echo and /bin/printf now.
> Unless you plan on only implementing half this standard?
Besides, from the ash:
DESCRIPTION
Sh is the standard command interpreter for the system. The current ver
sion of sh is in the process of being changed to conform with the POSIX
1003.2 and 1003.2a specifications for the shell. This version has many
ash is supposed to implement POSIX, not SuS.
marek
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