Am 08.09.2010 06:16, schrieb Victor Lowther: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Dave Reisner <d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Instead of checking for the existance of a file in /var/run/daemons on >> every iteration, handle the null case by setting nullglob. The shopt >> call is done inside a subshell as to not bother the environment since we >> may be going to runlevel 1 only temporarily. > > I thought about just enabling nullglobs and extglobs unconditionally > in functions, but decided that was too likely to get objections no > matter how unlikely breakage was. :) As for nullglob, I do think it is useful and enabling it might be useful in so many places - I didn't even know this option, it would have been useful for me before. I am in favor of enabling nullglob in function and dropping that subshell. Do we need extglob anywhere? I don't think so.
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