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On Thursday 26 February 2009 04:27:44 Timothy Redaelli wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 25 February 2009 23:45:41 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > i recall it being incorrect in some cases (it checked for what dash |
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> > supports, not what POSIX supports), but that was a while ago, so maybe my |
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> > experience is dated at this point. otherwise, integrating it sounds sane |
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> > to me, and if we can push fixes back to debian, even better. |
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> It does not fail, the problem is that some construct works only on some |
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> shells or systems (for example type and kill -HUP warnings). |
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> Maybe we should add a getopt flag (-q for example) to mask that types of |
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> warnings, or maybe we should (for Gentoo/Alt) adapt files to be (almost) |
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> POSIX compliant (so command -v instead of type, kill -s HUP instead of |
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> kill -HUP, and go on) |
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i'm totally not following. we were talking about POSIX shell syntax, but now |
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you're talking about utilities as well ? |
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-mike |
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