From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VPGjv-0007sO-BU for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:56:39 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPGjk-0007iZ-RW for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:56:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPGjb-00047b-U1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:56:28 -0400 Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:35702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPGjb-00047F-OT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:56:19 -0400 Received: from ucsinet22.oracle.com (ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8QIuDRC029609 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:56:14 GMT Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet22.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8QIuDFF001913 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:56:13 GMT Received: from abhmt108.oracle.com (abhmt108.oracle.com [141.146.116.60]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8QIuCZP019580; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:56:12 GMT Received: from [10.163.198.80] (/10.163.198.80) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:56:12 -0700 Message-ID: <52448345.5050407@Oracle.COM> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:56:05 +0100 From: Darren J Moffat Organization: Oracle Solaris Security User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; SunOS i86pc; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130718 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite References: <524431E6.60807@gmail.com> <20130926133504.GQ13097@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <6B80BB20-BE16-4296-9175-CBC0DD12D004@oracle.com> <52448222.4010608@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <52448222.4010608@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Source-IP: ucsinet22.oracle.com [156.151.31.94] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by aserp1040.oracle.com id r8QIuDRC029609 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 Cc: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 18:56:37 -0000 On 09/26/13 19:51, Vladimir '=CF=86-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 mov= e. bash is always installed on Solaris 11 onwards (11.1 is when it moved=20 from legacy GRUB to GRU2) - not least of which because it is root's=20 login shell. --=20 Darren J Moffat