On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:43:18AM -0700, Lombard, David N wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:48:19AM -0400, Lon Hohberger wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:54:41PM +0300, Janne Peltonen wrote: > > Yeah, it does hit a lot of subshells. Awks, seds, and the like. Some > > pattern substitution and matching can be done in pure bash. > > Perhaps a *lot* more than you likely think... > > Sadly, this is the common case. Probably 99.99% of all shell scripts > that I see are still Bourne scripts or very close to it. The bash shell > is SO MUCH more powerful than Bourne, but it gets used in such a clumsy > and trivial manner that wastes far too many processes and far too many > cycles. > > And yes, I have submitted patches when the abuse was truly egregious, > but such updates are universally ignored as there is no actual error to > point to. Did you have any for this in particular? -- Lon -- Lon Hohberger - Software Engineer - Red Hat, Inc. -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
