Rob Landley wrote: > > You mean "The new shell script is much simpler, about 1/4 the size, runs on > Red Hat 9 from 2003, and isn't perl?" :) > And introduces unclear environment dependencies depending on how external utilities are implemented. The whole point of why that script was written in Perl was to have access to arbitrary-precision arithmetic -- after it was shown that bc would simply lock up on some systems. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
