From owner-cvs-all Wed Nov 21 2:59:26 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB60237B416; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 02:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fALAwjP06737; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:53 GMT (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fALAwDj01626; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:13 GMT (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Message-Id: <200111211058.fALAwDj01626@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Akinori MUSHA , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 In-Reply-To: Message from Sheldon Hearn of "Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:52:10 +0200." <5181.1006282330@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:12 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:33:59 PST, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > > > Log: > > Remove the printf builtin command from sh(1), which command is not > > used so often that it's worth keeping it as a builtin. > > "not used so often that it's more worthwhile keeping than test(1)." > > To be clear, the builtin printf(1) is being removed to make space for the > builtin test(1), because > > 1) test(1) is _much_ more frequently used than printf(1) > > 2) since printf(1) and test(1) are approximately the same size, > the change can't be criticized as "bloat". I would have thought it useful to leave both test & printf as builtins... it's only a few k of space after all. > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message