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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
	<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] initscripts: fix timestamp check at bootmisc.sh
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:24:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323782688.24417.153.camel@phil-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE750C0.8050703@bluegiga.com>

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 15:18 +0200, Lauri Hintsala wrote:
> On 12/13/2011 03:07 PM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > read RAWTIMESTAMP<  /etc/timestamp
> > TIMESTAMP=${RAWTIMESTAMP#????????}${RAWTIMESTAMP%????????}
>
> Yes I got your idea and it seems to work. Thanks for your tips!
> 
> Second try:
> 
> SYSTEMDATE=`date -u +%4Y%2m%2d`
> read TIMESTAMP < /etc/timestamp
> if [ ${TIMESTAMP:8:4}${TIMESTAMP:0:4} -gt $SYSTEMDATE ]; then
>      date -u $TIMESTAMP
>      /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh stop
> fi
> 
> Is this okay? Should I generate patch?

Is the "${var:X:Y}" substring notation part of POSIX?  I have a feeling
that it might be a GNU extension, and it didn't seem to work in dash
when I tried it just now.

p.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-13 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-08  7:07 [PATCH] initscripts: fix timestamp check at bootmisc.sh Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-13  6:58 ` [PATCH v2] " Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-13  7:45   ` Koen Kooi
2011-12-13  8:26     ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-13 12:26   ` Richard Purdie
2011-12-13 12:36     ` Phil Blundell
2011-12-13 12:58       ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-13 13:07         ` Phil Blundell
2011-12-13 13:18           ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-13 13:24             ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2011-12-13 13:31               ` Henning Heinold
2011-12-13 13:40               ` Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-14  6:27 ` [PATCH v3] initscripts: fix timestamp checking " Lauri Hintsala
2011-12-15 19:17   ` Saul Wold

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