The 09/05/12, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:30:34 +0200
> Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
>
> > You should turn them all in things like:
> >
> > mkdir /sys 2> /dev/null 2>&1
> > cd /sys || {
> > ewarn "<the error message>"
> > return 1
> > }
>
> That's just a little less racy and certainly not
> atomic, /usr/bin/install would be atomic. As you have said
> your race point doesn't actually matter. You call it plain wrong and
> admit there is nothing wrong at the same time?
The way used to handle conditions is wrong. And I admit that for /this/
particular case, this is not much relevant.
> There's another point, shell is easily editable and understandable and
> that's a good thing and not a bad one and also one of arches values I
> believe, hence pacman uses so much shell!
I don't find pacman much editable, sorry. I've given examples of nice
features not easy to implement, here in the past. ,-p
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Nicolas Sebrecht
