Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

Posted May 14, 2015 0:42 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel by flussence
Parent article: Trading off safety and performance in the kernel

-n on echo was never portable.

Posted May 15, 2015 17:27 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I'm aware of that, but there's a huge amount of software in the wild convinced that it is: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=nonbash