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Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:07:09 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux)

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> But note that bash interprets -n as an option, which is not compliant with
> XSI.

Bash doesn't claim conformance to XSI, so that's OK as far as Bash is
concerned.  Autoconf (and I assume Squid) is supposed be portable to
all POSIX hosts, not merely POSIX+XSI hosts, so it should work with
Bash; so this is still a bug in either Autoconf or Squid, not in Bash.

There's a little history here.  POSIX 1003.2-1992 said that echo has
implementation-defined behavior if given any options, or if any
operands contain '\'.  This allows both traditional (echo -n) and
System V (backslash) interpretation.

SUSv2 came down squarely on the System V side.

But the BSD folks revolted on this, and POSIX 1003.1-2001 reverted to
the POSIX 1003.2-1992 spec, with the compromise of putting the System
V stuff into the XSI ghetto.




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