Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:11:48 +0900 From: "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, 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: <8666844buz.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: <200111211058.fALAwDj01626@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <sheldonh@starjuice.net> <5181.1006282330@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200111211058.fALAwDj01626@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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At Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:58:12 +0000,
Brian Somers wrote:
> > 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.
I agree. I don't consider a few k as bloat at all, so I'd like to MFC
the addition of test in no distant future.
My plan had been to just add test as a builtin and leave printf, but I
was convinced by Sheldon that printf could be removed because he
proved it was easy to do.
However, I'm not willing to MFC the removal to STABLE because it may
force the STABLE users to rewrite their hacked rc scripts, while we
don't need to care that much about the CURRENT users.
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