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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702090214460.14457@scrub.home>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:21:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Subject: Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH]
Hi,
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org> writes:
>
> > - printf has other side effects, instead stop pretending we support
> > something else than bash
>
> printf is a much better echo, but you need to use it properly as well.
> Either use %s to print a literal string or %b to let it interpret escape
> sequences.
Hmm, I didn't know about %b, which would indeed be another possibility
here, although I think it would only make a real difference if we decided
to make (and more importantly keep) all our scripts POSIX clean.
bye, Roman
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