On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Richard Purdie <
richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 09:49 -0500, Ben Shelton wrote:
> > In the commit 'initscripts: save /etc/timestamp with seconds accuracy',
> > a bashism was introduced in the bootmisc.sh script in the code to set
> > the current date from the stored value in /etc/timestamp.  This causes
> > that operation to fail with the following message when /bin/sh is not
> > bash:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh: line 73: syntax error: bad
> substitution
> >
> > Fixed by using 'cut' (standard under POSIX) rather than bash-specific
> > substring expansion.
> >
> > [YOCTO #6566]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Shelton <ben.shelton@ni.com>
> > Tested-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@enea.com>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> > index ccc7f9f..923fa88 100755
> > --- a/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts-1.0/bootmisc.sh
> > @@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ then
> >       read TIMESTAMP < /etc/timestamp
> >       if [ ${TIMESTAMP} -gt $SYSTEMDATE ]; then
> >               # format the timestamp as date expects it (2m2d2H2M4Y.2S)
> > -             date -u ${TIMESTAMP:4:8}${TIMESTAMP:0:4}.${TIMESTAMP:(-2)}
> > +             TS_YR=$(echo $TIMESTAMP | cut -c 1-4)
> > +             TS_SEC=$(echo $TIMESTAMP | cut -c 13-14)
> > +             TS_REST=$(echo $TIMESTAMP | cut -c 5-12)
> > +             date -u ${TS_REST}${TS_YR}.${TS_SEC}
> >               test -x /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh && /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
> stop
> >       fi
> >  fi
>
> We have tried hard to remove exec/fork/subshell calls from the init
> processes since each one does cost quite some time. The above introduces
> more than I'm comfortable with. Can we find some other way to do this
> please?


Hmm, worst case it looks like a single sed script would do, assuming
there's no way to get date -u to be more flexible.
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Christopher Larson
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