On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:16:06PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > So printf is slightly unwiedly to use and it can create > > format string attack. > > It does, however, have the advantage of working if BAR contains "-E". > (This isn't a contrived example, it's why I recently changed the parsing > of DEBUILD_LINTIAN_OPTS to use printf rather than echo; if there's a > sane way of printing "-E" using echo I'd love to know what it is).
Not quite correct, but echo "" -E does print " -E" Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
