Re: RFC: cleaner version of test.block

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:55:43AM -0500, Chris Larson wrote:
> * Chris Friesen (chris_friesen@sympatico.ca) wrote:
> > I propose the following version of test.block.  I think the code's
> > easier to read than the one using "cut", and it removes the dependency
> > on stuff outside of bash.
> > 
> > Also, running the call to udev backgrounded makes the whole scan take 1
> > second, rather than 1 second for each entry.
> [snip]
> 
> One thing to take note of here, is that adding additional bash
> dependencies makes it harder to use on embedded devices, which generally
> use dash, busybox ash, or similar.  (hotplug is another project that
> suffers from this, but that can be remedied by using diethotplug)

Yes, but this is just a test script.  And this is also one reason why
udev is linked statically...

thanks,

greg k-h



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