Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: >> On 12/15/08, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote: >>>> 4.2 Imported Interfaces >>> > >>> > Interface Name Classification Comments >>> > --------------------------- -------------------- >>> -------------------------- >>> > SUNWbash Volatile Package >>> >>> >>> You don't mention in the exported interface table that any of the >>> executables are bash scripts -- is there some other reason you're depending >>> on bash? >>> >>> +1 >> There is no need to use bash, the scripts should work with ksh93. > > > And it would be better to use bash; if only because of some fatal bugs in > bash. The worst offending bug probably only happens when you are > unfortunately to have to use bash as your interactive shell: > > sleep 10; rm -rf / > > > Now type "^C". (Yes, you are saved by "rm" in Solaris, but I've steered > clear of bash since I've learned this) > > Casper >
Perhaps we could stay on track and send suggested changes to the upstream maintainers in the form of patches, rather than raising issues here. I like Python a lot better than Perl, but I'm not going object to someone integrating ExifTool. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird."
