svn commit: trunk/busybox: coreutils include

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 05 May 2006 3:17 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >+config CONFIG_FEATURE_CAT_ESCAPE
> >+	bool "support -vetET"
> >+	depends on CONFIG_CAT
> >+	default n
> >+	help
> >+	  Sheer bloat.
> >+
>
> Rob, this is wrong!
> Please make sure not to leak your local modifications into svn
> *partially*.
>
> Please fix, either by checking in the code or by removing this pointless
> config entry, thanks in advance.. :-P

You're right.  I'm trying to flush things out of my tree today, but they keep 
spinning off new tangents.  (Ah, this is half a cleanup, I should do the 
_rest_ of that cleanup and check it in...)  My tree builds, but chopping out 
clean chunks of it to check in is a bit tricky at present.

As for cat -v, that's been sitting in my tree for a few days while I ponder 
whether or not the whole concept is too disgusting to check in.  I'm leaning 
towards adding a "catv" applet that does what cat -v would do, and takes the 
optional arguments -etET, since the two code paths really have nothing in 
common anyway...

On the one hand, cat -v is 20 years old and I have code for it that works 
right now.  On the other hand, if SUSv3 didn't take -v into the spec why 
should we?

Rob
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