From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Aditya Dutt <duttaditya18@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests: make shell scripts POSIX-compliant
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:11:51 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z7IOR2UNzjy7cQA7@slm.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250216120225.324468-1-duttaditya18@gmail.com>
On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 05:32:25PM +0530, Aditya Dutt wrote:
> Changes include:
> - Replaced [[ ... ]] with [ ... ]
> - Replaced == with =
> - Replaced printf -v with cur=$(printf ...).
> - Replaced echo -e with printf "%b\n" ...
>
> The above mentioned are Bash/GNU extensions and are not part of POSIX.
> Using shells like dash or non-GNU coreutils may produce errors.
> They have been replaced with POSIX-compatible alternatives.
Maybe just update them to use /bin/bash instead? There haven't been a lot of
reports of actual breakges and a lot of existing tests are using /bin/bash
already.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-16 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-16 12:02 [PATCH] selftests: make shell scripts POSIX-compliant Aditya Dutt
2025-02-16 16:11 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2025-02-17 3:00 ` Hangbin Liu
2025-02-18 20:44 ` Waiman Long
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