Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:32:39 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@maven.pl>, Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
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.

Alan
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