Mark Rosenstand wrote: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 00:27, Nicolas Dufour wrote: > >>I have a question to the developers of arch : >> >>Why the base use mawk instead of awk or gawk ? Is it working better ? >>a bug was found somewhere ? > > > Actually I recall a relatively recent bug reported on this list which > was caused by mawk... :-) >
I had posted previously some problems cause by mawk, and here is the thread: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2005-December/007533.html However there is no official explanation of why mawk is prefered over gawk. Dimitris _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
