----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:44 AM Subject: Re: coreutils instructions
... > > I use bash all the time and I wouldn't consider using a minimal posix shell > > for my login shell. For any non-trivial script, I use bash. However, for a > > generic shell script, I don't know why you couldn't make it posix compliant. > > That allows people to have flexibility without much loss. The bootscripts are > > pretty simple. > > As you mention, bootscripts are pretty simple and in no way are a stress test. > Four seconds doesn't seem very significant to me. It's not enough to notice > unless you are doing a timing test. > Keeping bootscript simple help and allow to use busybox ash without trouble. That's a bit out of coreutils topic. But when you want to keep booting from floppy possible, bash is too big. Gilles -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
