[klibc] DASH in klibc

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Sat Nov 5 23:11:40 PST 2005


Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> I presume you are always going to have the shell in a klibc setup?
> If that's not the case then printf should stay in utils.
> 
> If you put it in the shell it ends up being smaller since otherwise
> you'll need a non-trivial implementation of echo that interprets
> escape codes.
> 

I'm assuming you're more likely to need the shell but not printf than 
the other way around.  Doing escape codes is pretty trivial, though.

	-hpa



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