"Thomas Bächler" <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >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. Sounds good to me - nullglob is useful in general, and enabling it should not break anything else in the initscripts package. >Do we need extglob anywhere? I don't think so. I will take a look. -- Sent from my Nexus One with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
