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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#32703: echo_man_error |
| Date: | Sun, 16 Sep 2018 07:42:19 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
Pádraig Brady wrote:
Author: Jim Meyering<address@hidden>
Date: Thu Sep 25 12:58:50 1997 +0000
Make echo conform to POSIX. By default, don't
interpret backslash escape sequences.
POSIX may have changed in the meantime, but POSIXLY_CORRECT
was never used as a condition for enabling interpretation of escapes.
POSIX certainly did change in the meantime. In 1997 it was POSIX.2 (1992), whereas the requirements we're talking about weren't added until POSIX-2001. So the bug is that coreutils echo hasn't been upgraded to the new standard since 2001 and nobody has reported this until now.
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