On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 22:10 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: > I have spent some time over the last month or so rewriting the Arch > initscripts in idiomatic bash -- since they rely on bash-specific > features, trying to keep them fairly POSIX is rather a waste of time and > a net performance loss -- using bash-style conditionals is about 30% > faster when nothing needs to be touched on the filesystem and about 200% > easier to read, and you can use bash regexps in place of most trivial > uses of sed, grep, and awk when mangling parameters or variables -- the > fewer short-lived processes we fork the better. > > You can browse changes I have made in the git repo @ > http://git.fnordovax.org/arch-initscripts/log/?h=bashification and you > can checkout my changes to play around with from > git://fnordovax.org/~victor/arch-initscripts OK, the bashification branch has been rebased and updated to fix issues pointed out in the patch-by-patch feedback. Thomas, if you want I will repost the branch to the mailing list. -- Victor Lowther LPIC2 UCP RHCE
