From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/31] Some dracut cleanups and bashification. Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:13:33 -0500 Message-ID: <20090209191333.GA8665@redhat.com> References: <5a1ca330d81aeebf879bb7f0950b7ae448f7be22.1234137267.git.victor.lowther@gmail.com> <20090209171521.GA3646@redhat.com> <7FE9B1BD-31DA-4605-9881-3C42A05075E3@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7FE9B1BD-31DA-4605-9881-3C42A05075E3-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Victor Lowther Cc: "initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:57:15PM -0600, Victor Lowther wrote: >> The introduction of additional bashisms is something I'm not sold on. > > Well, it seems that most of the concern about bashisms has to do with > the code that ends up on the initrd. Making that code strictly posix is > probably a good thing. > > There is no real benifit in having the initrd generating code be > strictly posix, IMHO. It could be written in C, python, haskell, or > INTERCAL. Good point. I admit my comment was a knee-jerk reaction from reading the first post without having read the whole patchset. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html