[Christoph Anton Mitterer] > > This is indeed a problem if /bin/sh has no printf builtin, but it does > > not affect people who use dash or bash. > Well but it's rather ugly to simply say dash/bash support it,.. => > we're fine...
What problem are you trying to solve? Did you actually try to use an init script that use printf and doesn't depend on $remote_fs, on a system where /bin/sh is neither bash nor dash? Or is this just a big gedanken-experiment? It sounds a great deal like the latter, in which case I think you would waste a lot less time by simply joining forces with those people who are working toward being able to run other shells as /bin/sh. Let _them_ know that if they don't provide builtin test and printf commands, there will be problems before /usr is mounted. If they want to crusade about it, I think it would sound more credible than you doing so with no apparent concrete goals. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100715213129.ge3...@p12n.org
