Re: [PATCH/RFC] eradicate bashisms in scripts/patch-kernel

From: Andreas Mohr
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 14:58:39 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:17:07PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:09:35 +0100 Andreas Mohr wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm now quite certain on which side to tweak things ;)
>
> The other parts of your patch should probably be merged IMO.

Hmm, that particular part consists of _two_ transformations:
- removing the leading dot
- keep everything before [:punct:]

and the first transformation doesn't work on certain dash versions
the way it's currently coded.

> Would you resend a trimmed-down patch?
> or should I do it?

Feel free to go ahead, otherwise I'll try another patch sometime soon.
All I care about is that the result works on (at least)
one shell implementation _more_ than the current status ;)

Thanks a lot,

Andreas Mohr
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