Re: [PATCH] Get rid of cat and grep

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 06/05/2009 06:38 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Victor Lowther (victor.lowther-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org) said:
>>> Are we really at a place where we're that worried about 100k? I'd
>>> rather not have to implement all of coreutils in shell where needed.
>> People have this crazy fetish with booting fast.
>
> And implementing grep in shell makes it faster? It may be, but
> that's certainly not a given. Moreover, I wouldn't be surprised
> if eventually the udev rules or the initramfs will need something
> that's not practical to do with 'while read foo'.
>
> Bill


Please stop the discussion, this patch was not making things _that_ unreadable 
and is not _that_ bad.

Sure, if we have to do things in shell which really look ugly and we have a tool 
for it, better copy over the tool.

Now back to real work and real problems :)
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