linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KERNEL BUILD: Make the setlocalversion script POSIX-compliant.

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:16:55 +0200
From:	Michał Górny <gentoo@...rny.alt.pl>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KERNEL BUILD: Make the setlocalversion script
 POSIX-compliant.

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:00:29 +0200
Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:

> > There is one 'bashism' left which I wasn't able to fix -- the use of
> > 'test -ef'. I'm not aware of any POSIX equivalent of that.
> 
> Me neither, POSIX does not know stat(1) AFAICS. Does it matter in real
> life? Is there a distro that installs posh or a similarly strict shell
> as /bin/sh? It seems to work with dash after your changes.

I am not aware of any, and it does work with dash indeed. That's why I
have submitted the patch. I left that notice mostly because the actual
description suggested the script becomes 'POSIX-compliant'.

The second reason for that notice is that someone might want to fix
that sometime. But I guess the best way would be through complete
change of the check logic.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

<http://mgorny.alt.pl>
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