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

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Sun, 16 May 2010, Denys Vlasenko wrote:

> 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.

True.

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

I do share your worries, indeed.

If that attitude continues, I would not rule out the risk we may see a
fork of dash, sometime in a not too distant future.  That said, being
somewhat restrictive with feature bloat is not bad.


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian