On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Joel C. Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > …At this point the Plan 9 realized history repeating itself, and > although she did not want to offend either, she decided it was better > to offend the impatient youth rather than subject all her suitors to > yet another surfeit of notation. > —From "Plan 9 and the Echo, with apologies to Doug McIlroy" by Russ > Cox, linked to in my previous post. >
Except, this is a different kind of problem. The file talks about echo '' which I understand should not be fixed because breaks other things and is a general case (as Russ points) of the question "what should we do when given an empty string / 0 size write etc." which is tricky and complicated. echo -- -n is a different kind of issue I think. I would just want to be told the reason(s) behind this. The fix doesn't break anything, makes echo consistent with the rest of programs and consists of two clear and simple lines of code. I wasn't trying to flame (originally, then I got carried away). I am just curious why this wasn't fixed. -- - curiosity sKilled the cat
