Re: echo rationale?

[Andrew Josey <yyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi Ben
It was part of the merger of the semantics from the Single UNIX
Specification Version 2. This was a major part of the  scope for the
2001 revision, the change history for the page notes this.

You could always provide the POSIX semantics in a different binary
or only when say an environment variable such as POSIXLY_CORRECT is true.

Why not participate in the meeting next week if you want to talk to 
some of the folks to find out more? (Reading is not too far from Cambridge:-)
regards
Andrew

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