Jilles Tjoelker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> On 07/02/2012 08:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> > On Jul 2, 2012, at 07:51, Eric Blake wrote: > >> >> ... non-required bloat ... > >> > The key phrase. And one value of a shell lacking such >> > extensions is that it provides an excellent test bed for >> > code intended to be portable within the POSIX spec. > >> That argues that we should drop our strcasecmp() for the much simpler >> strcmp(), in order to remove the bloat we already have. > > Such a change would be at odds with the goal of dash to be a usable > shell. It is not good to break existing scripts, even if those scripts > are not strictly POSIX-compliant, and particularly so if the scripts > relied on designed behaviour. Such changes can waste a lot of time.
I agree with Jilles. I don't think any change is required here. Thanks, -- Email: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
