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From: Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Oracle.COM>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:56:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52448345.5050407@Oracle.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52448222.4010608@gmail.com>



On 09/26/13 19:51, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 26.09.2013 19:10, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>>
>>   Ditto here.  I'd prefer it stay *sh.
>>
> Even if it would mean to go with bash?
> Solaris was one of the worst platforms for making grub-install work
> there due to its very limited shell and standard tools behaving
> differently. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it got broken for
> solaris again.
> I see Solaris as one of platforms which can benefit a lot from this move.

bash is always installed on Solaris 11 onwards (11.1 is when it moved 
from legacy GRUB to GRU2) - not least of which because it is root's 
login shell.

-- 
Darren J Moffat


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-26 13:08 [RFC] grub-install C rewrite Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-26 13:35 ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-09-26 13:59   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-26 14:44     ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-09-26 18:49       ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-26 20:22         ` Lennart Sorensen
2013-09-26 20:29           ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-26 20:51           ` Chris Murphy
2013-09-26 22:15             ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-27  3:10         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-09-26 17:10   ` Seth Goldberg
2013-09-26 18:51     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-09-26 18:56       ` Darren J Moffat [this message]
2013-09-26 18:57       ` Seth Goldberg
2013-09-26 14:49 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-09-26 15:01   ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-10-06 14:54 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2013-10-06 15:56   ` Andrey Borzenkov
2013-10-06 18:05     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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2013-09-26 17:52 Kalamatee

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