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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Paul Gilmartin <PaulGBoulder@aim.com>
Cc: dash <dash@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Allow SIG* signal names.
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 08:22:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF1AE9C.7040307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2D2FC58C-ACD5-4113-9A1D-C53A854C3CD7@aim.com>

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On 07/02/2012 08:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2012, at 07:51, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> ... non-required bloat ...
>>  
> The key phrase.  And one value of a shell lacking such
> extensions is that it provides an excellent test bed for
> code intended to be portable within the POSIX spec.

That argues that we should drop our strcasecmp() for the much simpler
strcmp(), in order to remove the bloat we already have.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org




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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-02 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-01 10:12 [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Allow SIG* signal names Isaac Jurado
2012-07-02 13:51 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-02 14:11   ` Paul Gilmartin
2012-07-02 14:22     ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-07-02 18:53       ` Isaac Jurado
2012-07-02 18:57         ` Isaac Jurado
2012-07-02 19:07         ` Eric Blake
2012-07-02 19:21           ` Isaac Jurado
2012-07-03 20:13       ` Jilles Tjoelker
2012-07-05  7:43         ` Herbert Xu
2012-07-05 21:01           ` Isaac Jurado

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