Bug#550399: dash: echo expanding backslash escape sequences

2009-12-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Clint Adams dixit: >Again, I read […] >as invalidating your "either-or" mandate. Indeed, I concede, I’ve read something recently supporting that view. Pity though, as there’s nothing reasonably wide-spread that is guaran- teed to not expand them (printf(1) is problematic, not the least since it l

Bug#550399: dash: echo expanding backslash escape sequences

2009-11-03 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 02:30:36PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi, > > actually, other shells do: > * posh (bug) > * mksh (bug, fixed in -current, fixed in Debian 39.1-4, only in sh mode) > * maybe others > > I’ve read POSIX and Debian Policy to get an understanding of this. > POSIX basically