Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 03:56:04 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man1 builtin.1 src/bin/sh Makefile builtins.def sh.1 src/usr.bin/printf printf.1 Message-ID: <86pu6dp8zf.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <5181.1006282330@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <200111201833.fAKIXxu79722@freefall.freebsd.org> <5181.1006282330@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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At Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:52:10 +0200,
sheldonh wrote:
> "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".
Yes, but considering the forthcoming MFC in which I'm going to just
add test as a builtin but leave printf, I wanted to separate the
issues.
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