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

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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:29:11 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
Cc:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>,
	Embedded Linux mailing list <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with
	kernel/timeconst.sh

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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