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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:27:31 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Diet /sbin/hotplug package released
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:27:26PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:22:06PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Why would POSIX "cleanness" matter for these scripts?
> 
> Believe it or not, some people don't use bash as /bin/sh, or at all.
> I notice that /etc/hotplug/hotplug.functions uses #!/bin/bash, which
> is better than pretending to be an "sh" script and using bashisms.

I realize that not all /bin/sh is really bash, that's why the scripts
explicitly ask for bash.  I'm guessing some bashisms are in there :)

thanks,

greg k-h