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On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:00:59AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: |
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>> Roy: [[ or [? |
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> Entirely depends on system. |
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> OpenRC uses /bin/sh to process the actual init script. We rely on /bin/sh |
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> claiming POSIX compat [1]. On Gentoo Linux systems, this is normally a link |
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> to bash, so you can use bashisms if you so wish. |
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Is "[[" a bashism or not? That's all I'm asking. |
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What's a good way to test for POSIX compatibility so that the testing |
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CAN actually be done. My testcase was 'bash --posix'. Testing under |
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busybox's ash seems to work perfectly with "[[" as well. |
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> But as you asked, here's what the good doc [1] has to say |
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> The following words may be recognized as reserved words on some |
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> implementations (when none of the characters are quoted), causing |
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> unspecified results: |
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> [[ ]] function select |
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> In other words, I won/t make any claims whether [[ ]] works in OpenRC. |
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That doesn't answer if it's a bashism. I interpret that part of the |
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document to simply be that it's implementation detail is not covered by |
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the POSIX spec. |
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> Franky, I've given up on trying to enforce anything POSIX related over |
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> something else (like say GNU or implementation extensions over an accepted |
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> standard). I just don't care. I used to, but developer and user backlash |
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> (see the archives) was just too much for me and was one of the resaons why |
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> I retired from Gentoo. |
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I'm all for going with something that will work more globally, IFF it |
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can be easily tested for (on pure Gentoo Linux machines, which is what |
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most developers are running, because they won't be bothered to test |
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under G/FBSD or Prefix/OSX etc), vs. just going by what the |
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specification says. |
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> Just Do What The Fuck You Like, Just Don't Bug Me pretty much somes up my |
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> attitude right now. Why do I have this attiude? Well, bug #175783 is a very |
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> good example. It's over two years since I submitted replacement scripts and |
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> did more besides. It's just like the courier-imap fiasco when |
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> baselayout-1.12 was touted for stable, but this time I Just Don't Care. |
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There hasn't been any release of the mysql-init-scripts in 2 years. |
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It's not that anything contrary to your opinions has been done on that |
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bug, it's more that I haven't have any specific need to fix that package |
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yet. That bug there also raised the openrc detection issue. I hadn't |
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read the comments in it for nearly a year now. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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