Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh

Adrian Bunk
2007-02-02T16:36:18Z

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:49:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:11:46 +0100
> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:24:17PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg>
> >
> > > Use "awk" instead of "gawk".
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > There's a symlink from awk to gawk if you're using the gnu tools, but no
> > > symlink from gawk to awk if you're using BusyBox or some such. (There's a
> > > reason for the existence of standard names. Can we use them please?)
>
> If the kernel is being compiled on a non-Linux system (eg: legacy Unix)
> then it is, I guess, possible for `awk' and `gawk' to offer different
> features. If the kernel's use of gawk uses GNU extensions then this patch
> might break things on such a system.
>
> I guess we'll find out...

Not only legacy systems.

E.g. in Debian GNU/Linux you must have at least one AWK implementation
installed, and awk is a symlink to one of them (both is done by the
package manager).

Available AWK implementations are:
- GNU AWK
- Mawk
- the original AWK

cu
Adrian

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