Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754583AbZAEMa3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 07:30:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752875AbZAEMaU (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 07:30:20 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:4892 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752728AbZAEMaS (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 07:30:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: Replace kernel/timeconst.pl with kernel/timeconst.sh From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Rob Landley Cc: Jamie Lokier , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Ingo Oeser , Embedded Linux mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Sam Ravnborg In-Reply-To: <200901042250.36847.rob@landley.net> References: <200901020207.30359.rob@landley.net> <20090104221356.GA32357@shareable.org> <1231114530.3310.6.camel@gimli.at.home> <200901042250.36847.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:29:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1231158551.3326.82.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -1.102 () AWL,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.102 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -1.102 () AWL,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 27 On Son, 2009-01-04 at 22:50 -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 18:15:30 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: [...] > > ACK. A bash can IMHO be expected. Even going for `dash` is IMHO somewhat > > too extreme. > > I have yet to encounter a system that uses dash _without_ bash. (All ubuntu Hmm, should be doable with a chroot environment quite cheap and simple. > variants, even jeos, install bash by default. They moved the /bin/sh symlink Yes, I know (small) embedded systems that have a bash (and not "only" one of busybox shells). It eases writing somewhat fast shell scripts without the need for lots of fork()s+exec()s too ..... Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/