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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:44:55 +0100 (BST)
From: Riley Williams <rhw@InfraDead.Org>
Reply-To: Riley Williams <rhw@InfraDead.Org>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
cc: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@po.cwru.edu>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
Subject: Re: Patch for Menuconfig script
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Hi Tom.

>>> This is just a patch to the Menuconfig script (can be easily adapted
>>> to the other ones) that allows you to configure the kernel without
>>> the requirement of bash (I tested it with ksh, in POSIX-only mode).  
>>> Feel free to flame me :P

>> Does it also work in the case where the current shell is csh or tcsh
>> (for example)?

> Er.. why wouldn't it?
> $ head -1 scripts/Menuconfig 
> #! /bin/sh

> So this removes the /bin/sh is not bash test, yes?

 Q> # ls -l /bin/sh | tr -s '\t' ' '
 Q> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 7 1999 /bin/sh -> tcsh
 Q> #

You tell me - the above is from one of the systems I regularly use,
which does not even have bash installed...

Best wishes from Riley.

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