'read -p' in ash

[Jerry D. Hedden]

According to its man page, 'ash' supports the '-p' option on 'read'.
However, the following:

#!/bin/ash
read -p'Hit <CR> to exit: ' x

produces:

read: Illegal option -p

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

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