Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

[Jeff Sheinberg]

Paul Eggert writes:
 > Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden> writes:
 > > $ a='a\b'
 > > $ set | grep '^a='
 > > a='a\b'
 > > $ echo "$a"
 > > a
 > > $
 > POSIX says that the last echo is equivalent to
 > 
 > $ echo 'a\b'
 > 
 > and that the results are implementation-defined, since 'echo' has
 > undefined behavior if its operands contain a backslash.  (On
 > XSI-conformant systems, the system must print a backslash; perhaps
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^
 > that's what ash did.)

s/backslash/backspace/

-- 
Jeff Sheinberg