On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:18:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > 1) it must NOT damage, cripple, or remove standard, sane short > non-devfs name support.
Got that. > 2) it must be pure posix /bin/sh code. read me lips, absolutly no bashisms. I think I got that (using pdksh's ksh to test right now). > 3) it must not add any new dependencies to ofpath, that is to say, > ofpath currently lives without nice stuff like sed, awk, cut etc. the > only things out of /usr that is uses is find, head and tail and of > those it only uses what busybox provides. ofpath MUST work on the > debian boot-floppies, they are quite stripped and will not have new > utilities added. you can use what utilities ofpath already uses, but > no new ones. Er, what version of busybox? 0.51 seems to have cut and sed. I'm not sure I'll need 'em tho.. > 4) persuant to 3, all calls to external utilities must be busybox compatible. > Got that. :) > 5) roughly follows my coding style, mainly i don't want to see patches > with rediculous variables like MY_LONG_ASS_COMPLETLY_UNREADBLE_VARIABLE. So write sanely, in other words? :) > 6) it must be a shell function say unfuckdevfs() that is called with > one argument: /dev/retarded/devfs/name and outputs a normal, unix > compliant terse name (eg: standard linux device name). i will almost > certainly not accept a huge patch reworking all of ofpath solely to > cater to devfs. I think I've got it as one function. I'm going to try putting it in ofpath shortly to see how well it goes.. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
