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Message-ID: <20071117172446.GD4250@stusta.de>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:24:46 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To: Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:13:21PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hello,
Hi Andreas,
> I was non-mildly horrified to find that the rather widely used patch-kernel
> script seems to rely on bash despite specifying the interpreter as #!/bin/sh,
> since my dash-using Debian install choked on it.
>
> Thus I'm delivering a first, preliminary, non-reviewed change to make
> patch-kernel (a little bit more?) POSIX-compatible. It now survives both
> a dash and a bash run.
>...
> Comments?
>...
if that's easyly possible it's OK.
But if it becomes possible I'd strongly favour simply changing the
interpreter to #!/bin/bash which would also fix this problem.
> Thanks,
>
> Andreas Mohr
>...
cu
Adrian
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