On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:34:42 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 June 2007 16:32:39 Alan Cox wrote: > > > Having the scripts work with other shells is very helpful for porting, > > cross building and the like. > > Well then for the majority of cross compile users you should consequently > write > them in Windows batch language. That isn't portable or standardised. And there are posix shells for Windows if you really want to cross build on Windows (and some folks do for embedded because of debug/ice enviroments - pity them) > > Also on Linux /bin/sh is not > > neccessarily /bin/bash. > > If it's not I think these few distributions give Linux a bad name > because they introduce quite unnecessary incompatibilities. > Hopefully they are not widely used. On the contrary, it is you who is causing incompatibilities by objecting to the use of standards compliant behaviour. This is the world according to the standards not the world according to Andi Kleen. (Which one would run better is a different debate to which one we live in ;)) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/