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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc: eblake@redhat.com, PaulGBoulder@aim.com, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Allow SIG* signal names.
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:43:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120705074355.GA969@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120703201334.GA66099@stack.nl>

Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:22:20AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 07/02/2012 08:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> > On Jul 2, 2012, at 07:51, Eric Blake wrote:
> 
>> >> ... non-required bloat ...
> 
>> > The key phrase.  And one value of a shell lacking such
>> > extensions is that it provides an excellent test bed for
>> > code intended to be portable within the POSIX spec.
> 
>> That argues that we should drop our strcasecmp() for the much simpler
>> strcmp(), in order to remove the bloat we already have.
> 
> Such a change would be at odds with the goal of dash to be a usable
> shell. It is not good to break existing scripts, even if those scripts
> are not strictly POSIX-compliant, and particularly so if the scripts
> relied on designed behaviour. Such changes can waste a lot of time.

I agree with Jilles.  I don't think any change is required here.

Thanks,
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-05  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-01 10:12 [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Allow SIG* signal names Isaac Jurado
2012-07-02 13:51 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-02 14:11   ` Paul Gilmartin
2012-07-02 14:22     ` Eric Blake
2012-07-02 18:53       ` Isaac Jurado
2012-07-02 18:57         ` Isaac Jurado
2012-07-02 19:07         ` Eric Blake
2012-07-02 19:21           ` Isaac Jurado
2012-07-03 20:13       ` Jilles Tjoelker
2012-07-05  7:43         ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2012-07-05 21:01           ` Isaac Jurado

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