Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1945980AbXBBQgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:36:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1945981AbXBBQgS (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:36:18 -0500 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:58291 "EHLO mailhub.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1945980AbXBBQgR (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Feb 2007 11:36:17 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 17:36:20 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Rob Landley , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh Message-ID: <20070202163620.GG3754@stusta.de> References: <200701151624.18033.rob@landley.net> <20070115221146.GA12698@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20070123164944.db8acbad.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070123164944.db8acbad.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1659 Lines: 49 On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 04:49:44PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:11:46 +0100 > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:24:17PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley > > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg > > > > > Use "awk" instead of "gawk". > > > > > > -- > > > > > > There's a symlink from awk to gawk if you're using the gnu tools, but no > > > symlink from gawk to awk if you're using BusyBox or some such. (There's a > > > reason for the existence of standard names. Can we use them please?) > > If the kernel is being compiled on a non-Linux system (eg: legacy Unix) > then it is, I guess, possible for `awk' and `gawk' to offer different > features. If the kernel's use of gawk uses GNU extensions then this patch > might break things on such a system. > > I guess we'll find out... Not only legacy systems. E.g. in Debian GNU/Linux you must have at least one AWK implementation installed, and awk is a symlink to one of them (both is done by the package manager). Available AWK implementations are: - GNU AWK - Mawk - the original AWK cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/