linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.99.0706092132200.8312@foobar-g4>
Date:	Sat, 9 Jun 2007 21:34:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Christian Kujau <christian@...ouse.de>
To:	"Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmerino@...upc.edu>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Wouldn't this be better expressed as:
>
>   start=$(($start + 8))
>   size=$(($end - $start))
>
> to avoid invoking a subshell?

This is certainly possible for lots for scripts, but was not the "scope" 
of this patch. ` is not bash-specific and does not break anything.

-- 
make bzImage, not war
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