Adding bash support to hush: the todo list.

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu May 20 01:41:19 UTC 2010


On Thursday 20 May 2010 03:04, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 17 May 2010 09:41:36 Matthew Stoltenberg wrote:
> > > We probably want some kind of config option for the alias, so bash and
> > > busybox can easily be installed side by side without interfering with
> > > each other.
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
> > I'm not the best at wording, but see the attached patch.
> >
> > Matt
> 
> Looks good to me, although the config symbol name we choose might also control 
> the actual ash extensions for hush ($RANDOM and {one,two} and ~= and so on).
> 
> Denys: with this in, does the generator script work on a busybox-hosted 
> system?  (I.E. does the script run correctly under hush?)

No, it doesn't understand "cd -- DIR". It thinks -- is DIR.
Fixed in git.

> If not, what needs fixing?  (I've found the best way to add functionality like 
> this is pick something real that doesn't work, and make it work.  That way you 
> know you're focusing on something real, and the thing you're trying to fix acts 
> as a test case and regression test suite.

Yes.
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vda


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