From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Diet /sbin/hotplug package released
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:22:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010829222206.B14791@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010829120440.B12825@kroah.com> <20010829221246.B30945@vitelus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010829221246.B30945@vitelus.com>; from aaronl@vitelus.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:12:46PM -0700
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:12:46PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:04:40PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > is 59221 bytes. The current linux-hotplug system needs this file,
> > plus all of the linux-hotplug scripts and bash and awk to work.
>
> Hrm, why does it use bash-specific shell features? That's very bad.
> POSIX would be a much cleaner spec to conform to.
I don't know if it uses bash-specific features, I haven't tried it on
any other shell (and am not the main author of the shell scripts).
Why would POSIX "cleanness" matter for these scripts?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-30 5:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-29 19:04 [ANNOUNCE] Diet /sbin/hotplug package released Greg KH
2001-08-30 5:12 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-08-30 5:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
2001-08-30 5:27 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-08-30 5:27 ` Greg KH
2001-08-30 10:47 ` Stefan Fleiter
2001-08-30 15:21 ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-08-30 20:51 ` Greg KH
2001-08-30 20:56 ` Stefan Fleiter
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