From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [klibc] not everybody uses bash
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:37:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42596451.5030707@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050408170525.GU15412@boetes.org>
Han Boetes wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>Han Boetes wrote:
>>
>>>Though most people do have which installed somewhere.
>>
>>Denied. which has really bad properties on a lot of shells, and
>>unless you can trust "make" to invoke /usr/bin/which (or
>>whatever it happens to be), then you're screwed.
>>
>>The reason the script invokes bash explicitly is to deal with
>>people who *aren't* using bash as a shell.
>
>
> If people don't _have_ bash as a shell it won't work at all.
>
> Every shell I know has ``type foo'' and return something like
> ``foo is /usr/bin/foo''
>
"something like" isn't very good. Anyway, I already reimplemented the
path search in Perl in 1.0.6, eliminating the need for the shell to do
that job.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-10 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-08 17:05 not everybody uses bash Han Boetes
2005-04-08 20:42 ` Greg KH
2005-04-10 0:20 ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-10 10:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-04-10 17:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-04-10 17:53 ` Han Boetes
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