id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2646	scripts should use printf instead of echo	tito_puentes	lfs-book@…	"1. POSIX doesn't define flags for echo, making the /bin/sh shebang misleading. This is notorious when using ksh or dash as /bin/sh.

2. Forking to /bin/echo (assuming that the shell's builtin doesn't have the requirements, and that the binary is there in the first place) for every boot message is expensive and unnecesary.

3. init.d/functions is now simplified and marginally faster since it does not need to determine echo's functionality every time that it is sourced."	defect	closed	low	6.7	Bootscripts	SVN	minor	wontfix	echo printf POSIX