seq_main() bugs

Denis Vlasenko vda at ilport.com.ua
Fri Apr 28 05:26:59 UTC 2006


On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:17, Rob Sullivan wrote:
> Personally, I think Busybox seq gives the right output - if first and last
> are the same, then there should be no output, no matter what increment is.
> Making this case to the coreutils people might be difficult, however.

It's better to match coreutils behaviour (unless it is outright buggy).
We want to support as many of existing shell scripts
as possible without modifying them.
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vda



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