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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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