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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:02:24
Message-Id: 20070206205852.29299536@snowdrop
1 On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 20:31:03 +0000 Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:27:15 +0000
4 | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote:
5 |
6 | > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 19:09:26 +0000 Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
7 | > wrote:
8 | > | The stuff that handles our networking maybe written in A.N.
9 | > | Other-Language (Mrs.), but keeping /etc/conf.d/net readable by a
10 | > shell | script does have advantages.
11 | >
12 | > He didn't say "make it not readable by a shell". He was suggesting
13 | > making it in some format that is readable both by C and the shell --
14 | > that is to say, a subset of shell.
15 |
16 | Right, and bash arrays are not shell
17 | http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/toc.htm
18
19 Sure they're shell. They're just not POSIX.
20
21 --
22 Ciaran McCreesh
23 Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Network configuration and bash Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>