From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get rid of cat and grep Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:46:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4A294BEC.2010107@redhat.com> References: <4A2907E7.1080008@bfh.ch> <20090605155832.GH5107@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> <20090605163828.GA7041@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090605163828.GA7041-Zdt1ptygihhQcNjhGXsBABcY2uh10dtjAL8bYrjMMd8@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Bill Nottingham Cc: Victor Lowther , Seewer Philippe , "" 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 :) -- 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