Jonathan, On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Herbert Xu wrote: > >> > >> I'm with Jilles on this. I also don't particularly feel like > >> bloating dash just because of the borked /proc interface when > >> there is a perfectly adequate work-around in "cat". > >> > >> value=$(cat /proc/file) > > > > I wouldn't call that "a perfectly adequate work-around", but a painful > > and unadequate work-around. > > This works in /proc because files in /proc are seekable. > > That said, I don't think borked /proc is a great reason to do this > (it's a better reason to fix /proc). Speeding up the read builtin > might be a good reason.
Right. So, there are 2 options here. One is to to make dash work like bash on a proc filesystem, the other to "fix" the kernel. How many linux distributions depend on a "working" dash? Which alternative is the more realistic one? What are the ETAs odds? How do we proceed? Cheers, -- Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
