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Message-Id: <2F6FAF9E-8997-4FC1-8310-4A7D17C659E4@ac.upc.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:26:59 +0200
From: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmerino@...upc.edu>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig
On 09/06/2007, at 21:22, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that scripts/extract-ikconfig is using /bin/sh in its
> shebang but when /bin/sh is not a symlink to bash, it breaks with:
> [...]
> @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ function dump_config {
> fi
> end=`$binoffset $file $IKCFG_ED 2>/dev/null`
>
> - let start="$start + 8"
> - let size="$end - $start"
> + start="`expr $start + 8`"
> + size="`expr $end - $start`"
Wouldn't this be better expressed as:
start=$(($start + 8))
size=$(($end - $start))
to avoid invoking a subshell?
--
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@...upc.edu>
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