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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:36:54
Message-Id: 20070209093415.72d35b7d@uberlaptop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash by Mike Frysinger
1 On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:27:06 -0500
2 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Thursday 08 February 2007, Ned Ludd wrote:
5 > > Please read over what's been talked about elsewhere in this thread.
6 > > He is not trying to break existing functionality at all. Only
7 > > extend it to be posix aware (additionally)
8 >
9 > erm, no ... our code is a superset of POSIX, so technically yes he is
10 > breaking existing functionality and doing the quite opposite of
11 > extending -mike
12
13 True, but remember that this only applies for when /bin/sh isn't bash.
14 So this will mainly affect FreeBSD and embedded, but it at least gives
15 them a better chance of working from the get-go if baselayout at least
16 supports it.
17
18 Roy
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