[patch] libjava: avoid using escape sequence with undefined behaviour in echo

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Sep 20 04:35:00 GMT 2005


Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>I do think requiring a POSIX-compliant shell is reasonable.
> 
> 
> POSIX compliance wouldn't help much here, since it makes the issue
> implementation-defined.  A better alternative might be to use printf
> instead.

Agreed; I failed to verify the original claim that ash was non-compliant
in this regard.

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