Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:21:27 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r215520 - in head: bin/sh share/man/man1 usr.bin/printf Message-ID: <20101119152127.GA29131@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201011191256.oAJCuDFH074482@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201011191256.oAJCuDFH074482@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:56:13PM +0000, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > I do not want to encourage people to write fragile and non-portable echo > commands by making printf much slower than echo. True. > Side effect: printf is now always the builtin version (which behaves > identically to /usr/bin/printf) and cannot be overridden via PATH (except > via the undocumented %builtin mechanism). Are there any plans to document it? ./danfe
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