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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:18:38 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Riley Williams <rhw@infradead.org>
Cc: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@po.cwru.edu>,
       Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: Patch for Menuconfig script
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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 06:44:55PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> 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...

So does tcsh work as a POSIX-sh when invoked as /bin/sh ?

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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