On 10/28/12 at 01:04pm, Rob Landley wrote: > > Posix specifies an -m option for wc, which toybox does > > not implement. Should there be a test for this, too? > > That's internationalization support, which I haven't implemented yet. > > I think toybox should support utf-8, but am not as interested in > multiple translations and date formats and such. (Those belong at the > GUI/X11 level.)
Ok. > > Why do the scripts actually use bash? > > The tl;dr version is "dash was a mistake on Ubuntu's part". > > [...] > > Toybox's built in shell is not attempting to duplicate dash. It's doing > a posix shell and then adding the bash extensions that make sense. > > Rob Thanks for the interesting read. Skimming testing.sh I see that it uses bash extensions and therefore each test script should be executed by bash. Presumably, the extensions used in testing.sh belong to the (not yet well- defined) set of sane extensions to be implemented in toybox's sh at some point? Felix _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
