From 47acf5397442f999dbbd26e81075139f508edc11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Lantz <rlantz@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:02:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Change to use printf rather than echo.

---
 mininet/node.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mininet/node.py b/mininet/node.py
index e2a23ac..7c7b4b3 100644
--- a/mininet/node.py
+++ b/mininet/node.py
@@ -70,8 +70,7 @@ class Node( object ):
         self.inNamespace = inNamespace
         if self.inNamespace:
             opts += '-n'
-        # xpg_echo is needed so we can echo our sentinel in sendCmd
-        cmd = [ 'mnexec', opts, 'bash', '-O', 'xpg_echo', '-m' ]
+        cmd = [ 'mnexec', opts, 'bash', '-m' ]
         self.shell = Popen( cmd, stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, stderr=STDOUT,
             close_fds=False )
         self.stdin = self.shell.stdin
@@ -168,7 +167,7 @@ class Node( object ):
             separator = ';'
             if printPid and not isShellBuiltin( cmd ):
                 cmd = 'mnexec -p ' + cmd
-        self.write( cmd + separator + ' echo -n "\\0177" \n' )
+        self.write( cmd + separator + ' printf "\\177" \n' )
         self.lastCmd = cmd
         self.lastPid = None
         self.waiting = True