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On Thursday 26 February 2009 06:33:17 Timothy Redaelli wrote: |
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> On Thursday 26 February 2009 10:32:52 you wrote: |
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> > i'm totally not following. we were talking about POSIX shell syntax, but |
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> > now you're talking about utilities as well ? |
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> I'm talking about checkbashism.pl checks and btw type is a builtin and kill |
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> can also be a builtin |
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it doesnt matter if they're builtins, they still need to follow POSIX |
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> kill -HUP |
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> `cat /var/run/mDNSResponderPosix.pid` >&/dev/null possible bashism in |
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> /etc/init.d/mDNSResponderPosix line 35 (kill -[0-9] or -[A-Z]): kill -HUP |
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POSIX states that `kill [-signal_name]` is valid syntax. if the shell doesnt |
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support it, then it isnt POSIX complaint and therefore it sucks and is not |
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worth consideration. |
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-mike |