From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: NAK (bashizm in the /bin/sh script): [PATCH v3] doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:34:42 +0200
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On Saturday 23 June 2007 16:32:39 Alan Cox wrote:
 
> Having the scripts work with other shells is very helpful for porting,
> cross building and the like.

Well then for the majority of cross compile users you should consequently write 
them in Windows batch language.

> Also on Linux /bin/sh is not 
> neccessarily /bin/bash.

If it's not I think these few distributions give Linux a bad name 
because they introduce quite unnecessary incompatibilities.
Hopefully they are not widely used.

-Andi
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