On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 04:34:41PM -0800, Victor Lowther wrote:
Hi, I enjoy hacking on system infrastructure and am a bash
programming
aficionado. With that in mind, I present this patch series against
current
master -- it simplifies several bits of code and shaves about 200
lines out
of the codebase. The final result has been tested on a Fedora 10
box that
uses lvm on top of dm-crypt, and it works fine. I have not tested
all
intermediate steps -- life is too short.
The introduction of additional bashisms is something I'm not sold on.
Well, it seems that most of the concern about bashisms has to do with
the code that ends up on the initrd. Making that code strictly posix
is probably a good thing.
There is no real benifit in having the initrd generating code be
strictly posix, IMHO. It could be written in C, python, haskell, or
INTERCAL.
Others have already expressed concern over what we have already,
so I think making it unnecessarily harder to switch to an alternative
shell may not be the best plan, especially when the benefits aren't
really that great.
Yeah, having the bits that end up in the initrd be posix is a good
design constraint.
Thanks for taking the time to get involved though, it's good to see
people actually playing with the code.
Indeed.
Dave
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