Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:32:39 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: NAK (bashizm in the /bin/sh script): [PATCH v3] doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info |
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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:17:27 +0200 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 13:09, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > > On Saturday 23 of June 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Here's a nickel. Get yourself a real shell. > > > > POSIX compilant shell isn't real shell? > > In this case it's not good enough. We're not writing POSIX portable software > here, but Linux software where /bin/sh is /bin/bash. Similar to the Linux > kernel which is not written in portable ISO C.
Having the scripts work with other shells is very helpful for porting, cross building and the like. Also on Linux /bin/sh is not neccessarily /bin/bash.
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