On Tuesday 11 November 2008 16:14:19 Philip Guo wrote: > I've just reported (in http://busybox.net/bugs/) 17 behavioral mismatches > between busybox and GNU coreutils versions of utilities. You can search > for them under reporter name 'pgbovine'.
Coreutils is not a standard, thus a mismatch with coreutils is not necessarily a bug. We use susv3 as our first line test of what's correct: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/idx/utilities.html You opened your bugs as "standards compliance" without referencing a standard. Beyond that, lots of the behavior in coreutils is sheer bloat. I looked at several of your things and you're asking us to make the code bigger, in ways not required by any standard, in order to provide features of negligible utility. In fact, in some cases: http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=6174 You're asking us to implement undocumented behavior that looks like a bug to me. You asked the coreutils to unset a variable, you gave it an insane variable name (environment variable names shouldn't have = in them), and it did something other than what you asked. The man page doesn't suggest env has the behavior you found, in fact it says it _won't_ do that. The fact busybox does not have this bug is not a problem with busybox. Honest and truly it isn't... Rob _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
