[PATCH] make it possible to keep Config/Kbuild snippets in *.c files

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun May 16 00:41:44 UTC 2010


On Saturday 15 May 2010 21:28, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Sat, 15 May 2010, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 15 May 2010 19:57, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > > On Sat, 15 May 2010, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > >
> > > > They are not bash compat :)
> > >
> > > Pick any one shell as _the_ reference shell and compare it with all
> > > other major shells.  The in"compat"ibilities (bash or not bash) will
> > > be noticable.
> >
> > But bash is de-facto standard Linux shell.
> 
> Was.  Things change.  Several distributions made the choice to replace
> bash with dash.  I was not involved in that process.  I'll have to live
> with it.  Mind you, I don't necessarily think it's a bad decision.

It's a good decision *if* dash developers will not jump on the opportunity
to become assholes, having such a large group of people their hostages now.

Seeing an email in dash archives where one developer says "standards
only require that redirections support fds 0..9", I am not very optimistic.

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vda


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