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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:27:33 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][qemu-iotests] explicitly use bash interpreter
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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> The tests use bash language features including 'local' and 'let' which
> aren't supported by /bin/sh on systems that use a conservative shell
> like dash.  This patch changes the interpreter to /bin/bash.

Minor nit: Dash does support 'local'.

-- Jamie