Re: [ANNOUNCE] Diet /sbin/hotplug package released

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:12:46PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:04:40PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >    is 59221 bytes.  The current linux-hotplug system needs this file,
> >    plus all of the linux-hotplug scripts and bash and awk to work.
> 
> Hrm, why does it use bash-specific shell features? That's very bad.
> POSIX would be a much cleaner spec to conform to.

I don't know if it uses bash-specific features, I haven't tried it on
any other shell (and am not the main author of the shell scripts).

Why would POSIX "cleanness" matter for these scripts?

thanks,

greg k-h