Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh

Bernd Petrovitsch
2009-01-05T12:30:29Z

On Son, 2009-01-04 at 22:50 -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:15:30 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[...]
> > ACK. A bash can IMHO be expected. Even going for `dash` is IMHO somewhat
> > too extreme.
>
> I have yet to encounter a system that uses dash _without_ bash. (All ubuntu

Hmm, should be doable with a chroot environment quite cheap and simple.

> variants, even jeos, install bash by default. They moved the /bin/sh symlink

Yes, I know (small) embedded systems that have a bash (and not "only"
one of busybox shells). It eases writing somewhat fast shell scripts
without the need for lots of fork()s+exec()s too .....

Bernd
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