From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:14:51 -0700 Message-ID: <4361A5BB.5040100@zytor.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , smurf@smurf.noris.de, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 28 06:19:37 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVLfc-00020k-2B for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:17:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965087AbVJ1EQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:16:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965089AbVJ1EQU (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:16:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:34944 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965088AbVJ1EQT (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:16:19 -0400 Received: from [172.27.0.18] (c-67-180-238-27.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.238.27]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9S4Ep7b026386 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:14:52 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Herbert Xu In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Herbert Xu wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Oh - there's another similarity between $(..) and $((..)). They're both >>POSIX 1003.2 standard features, so any "modern" shell should support them. >>Although in practice I don't know if that means anything else than ksh >>(where both syntaxes came from, actually). > > > There is also dash (http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/). > It complies with POSIX, is less than half the size of pdksh (83960 bytes > currently on i386), and is faster than pdksh. Current ash also has these features, and is about that size compiled static with klibc :) -hpa