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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/expr expr.1 expr.y src/include unistd.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc check_utility_compat.3 check_utility_compat.c
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<<On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:53:51 GMT, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> said:

> The /etc/compat-FreeBSD-4-util symlink feature of this function is too
> dangerous - it will break any scripts run anywhere on the system which
> expect the default behaviour.

No, it will only break those scripts which *require* the POSIX
behavior.  As I have told you about ten times now, the intersection of
the two (in the case of `expr' in particular) is large enough, and the
syntax of `expr' so restricted, that most scripts should not care.

-GAWollman


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