[PATCH] busybox: disable SUSv2 compatibility by default

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh henrique at nic.br
Thu Jul 9 09:28:00 EDT 2020


On 08/07/2020 08:27, Rui Salvaterra wrote:
> The Single UNIX Specification, Version 3, came out on the 30th January 2002 [1].
> There's nothing in the OpenWrt userspace which needs support for legacy SUSv2
> compatibility.

As you found yourself ("head -1", "tail -1"...), this is hard to access, 
and it is going to introduce (sometimes subtle) bugs in scripts not just 
from openwrt upstream, but also downstream and users.

Unless you're saving a very large amount of FLASH with this change, it 
*really* isn't worth it. Not even for the 4MiB targets.

Please reconsider.

-- 
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh



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