Author: dnicholson
Date: 2007-02-22 15:34:23 -0700 (Thu, 22 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 7929
Modified:
trunk/bootscripts/ChangeLog
trunk/bootscripts/lfs/init.d/functions
Log:
Use POSIX shell built-ins to calculate STRING_LENGTH
Modified: trunk/bootscripts/ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- trunk/bootscripts/ChangeLog 2007-02-22 22:29:24 UTC (rev 7928)
+++ trunk/bootscripts/ChangeLog 2007-02-22 22:34:23 UTC (rev 7929)
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
2007-02-22 Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+ * lfs/init.d/functions: Use arithmetic expansion and string length,
+ which are both mandated by POSIX, rather than spawning two processes
+ every time boot_mesg() is called.
+
+2007-02-22 Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lfs/init.d/functions: In order to provide an `echo' which provides
handles the -e and -n options for all POSIX shells, a feature test
is added which stores its result in $ECHO. /bin/echo will be used
Modified: trunk/bootscripts/lfs/init.d/functions
===================================================================
--- trunk/bootscripts/lfs/init.d/functions 2007-02-22 22:29:24 UTC (rev
7928)
+++ trunk/bootscripts/lfs/init.d/functions 2007-02-22 22:34:23 UTC (rev
7929)
@@ -110,9 +110,8 @@
done
## Figure out the length of what is to be printed to be used
- ## for warning messges.
- STRING_LENGTH="`echo "${1}" | sed \
- -e 's,.,.,g' -e 'l 1' | grep -c \$`"
+ ## for warning messages.
+ STRING_LENGTH=$((${#1} + 1))
# Print the message to the screen
${ECHO} ${ECHOPARM} -e "${2}${1}"
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