On Mon, 11 May 2020 13:46:35 +0000 David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Masami Hiramatsu > > Sent: 11 May 2020 14:38 > > > > Hi Andreas and David, > > > > OK, what about this fix? > > No idea what it is trying to do or why. > Just a way of avoiding the differences between SYSV and BSD /bin/echo. > > IIRC Posix allows both behaviours (and probably others). Ah, I got it. That's why POSIX said "the results are implementation-defined." https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/echo.html Thank you! -- Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
