On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:54:09PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Greg Stein wrote: > > > One of the reasons that I was advocating using the globbing feature of > > "case" was to avoid the nasty sed expression. > > > > Just do: > > > > case "`uname -r`" in > > 3.4*) > > disable-threads > > ;; > > esac > > But, this doesn't do what we want, which is to do this for any version > before 4.2-STABLE. Anything earlier than that is suspect.
1*|2*|3*|4.0*|4.1*|4.2-whatever-the-unstable-is) It feels like you guys are making the problem more difficult than it really is. Why not simply globbing? Why try to construct some darn version number? Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
