Re: [PATCH]: Replace echo AUTHORS FIXME unknown by bash builtin echo authors

[Jim Meyering]

Ondřej Vašík <address@hidden> wrote:
> according to bash sources(AUTHORS file), authors of bash built-in echo
> are Brian Fox, Chet Ramey. As coreutils echo is derived from bash
> builtin echo, I guess those authors should be used instead of FIXME
> unknown. Patch fixing echo authors is attached. This problem has been
> reported at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/175111 .

Thanks.  Applied.

> Anyway - there is still one file with FIXME unknown author - basename.
> I tried to find out the author, but I think I don't have enough
> informations to google it. Any idea? It would be good to get rid off
> those FIXME unknown authors.

Good point.  I'll list David J. MacKenzie, since odds are very
good he's the one who added most of the initial code, regardless.