Hi, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Miles Bader wrote: > Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The comment "... holds only for a shell where [ is a builtin" doesn't > >> make any sense to me > > > > The 'while case ...' construct does not invoke any external commands. > > The 'while test ...' too, but only when 'test' is builtin. When > > 'test' is the external binary you get one additional fork/exec per > > each cycle. > > In practice that's not an issue though -- every reasonable shell has > test as a builtin these days, so the "works when test is not a builtin" > criteria is really important only for robustness. AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH! _Exactly_ the same reasoning can be said about the old code: _every_ reasonable shell can grok the code that used to be there! <rhetoric-question> So what exactly was your point again? </rhetoric-question> Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
