Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945955AbXBIBWH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:22:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945995AbXBIBWH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:22:07 -0500 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:35359 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945955AbXBIBWF (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:22:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 02:21:59 +0100 (CET) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Andreas Schwab cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Verych Subject: Re: The who needs reviews anyways [PATCH] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 23 Hi, On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Roman Zippel 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/