Re: standards/50647: "echo -n" in rc.subr breaks the stop command on OSX

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/50647; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: standards/50647: "echo -n" in rc.subr breaks the stop command on
 OSX
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 17:13:51 +0000

 On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:30:00PM +0000, imil%home.imil.net@localhost wrote:
  > rc.subr uses `echo -n` in various functions, this makes the script
  > not portable under operating systems not supporting echo "-n" flag.
 
 MacOS doesn't support echo -n? What is this, 1992?
 
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 David A. Holland
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