* Herbert Xu said: > On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 07:35:38AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > > > Once again: > > > > We have a large user base, some of whom have come to rely on the current > > behavior of ash. > > If you mean they use ash as /bin/sh and rely on features that are not part of But -n *IS* a part of POSIX! Unless you don't consider the optional parts of a standard, being part of the standard... > POSIX, they are on their own. If you mean they are writing #!/bin/ash > scripts, then I must say that they are very strange indeed. No, they are writing scripts which use optional features of a standard, that were always present in the implementations of the shell. > > the behavior of ash must be changed. There are other ways to achieve > > that end. > > True, but remember that no one is supposed to write #!/bin/ash scripts, so > once we've sorted out (assuming that we actually want to) our own scripts, > there is nothing stopping us from changing the behaviour of ash. I agree here. marek
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