Re: [PATCH] Remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On 09/06/2007, at 21:34, Christian Kujau wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > Wouldn't this be better expressed as:
> >
> >   start=$(($start + 8))
> >   size=$(($end - $start))
> >
> > to avoid invoking a subshell?
>
> This is certainly possible for lots for scripts, but was not the  
> "scope" of this patch. ` is not bash-specific and does not break  
> anything.

$((...)) is not bash-specific either.

--
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@xxxxxxxxxx>


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