On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 05:28, YAMAKURA Makoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
> Subject: [gentoo-dev] baselayout-1.8.6.7
> Date: 12 May 2003 02:00:34 +0200
> 
> > - Updated the dependency system to try and touch files less.
> >   For example, dependencies are calculated in runscript.sh
> >   now without the symlink method, but rather with env variables.
> >   Also, all helper scripts should be sourced only once for
> >   any series of services started, or during a runlevel change.
> 
> I have trouble with pcmcia/net.eth0 dependency. "deptree" script
> defines functions such as "depinfo_net.eth0", but bash doesn't allow
> those names, so "get_dep_info" in rc-services.sh gets failed.
> 

If you look at bash's manual page, they define a variable as:

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A  parameter is an entity that stores values.  It can be a name, a num-
ber, or one of the special characters listed below under Special Param-
eters.   For the shell's purposes, a variable is a parameter denoted by
a  name.   A  variable  has  a  value  and  zero  or  more  attributes.
--------------------------------------------------------

Let on the 'a variable is a parameter denoted by a name'.

This is for a function:

--------------------------------------------------------
[ function ] name () { list; }
       This defines a function named name.  The body of the function is
       the  list  of  commands  between { and }.
--------------------------------------------------------

And if you then check what they define 'name' as:

--------------------------------------------------------
name   A word consisting only of  alphanumeric  characters  and  under-
       scores,  and beginning with an alphabetic character or an under-
       score.  Also referred to as an identifier.
--------------------------------------------------------

Means that it is totally legal to call a variable/function:

  get_foo_bar


Regards,

-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa