nightmorph 11/03/02 08:09:48 Modified: hb-working-rcscripts.xml Log: add suggestion on posix-compliance for initscripts, bug 353979
Revision Changes Path 1.32 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml?rev=1.32&view=markup plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml?rev=1.32&content-type=text/plain diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml?r1=1.31&r2=1.32 Index: hb-working-rcscripts.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml,v retrieving revision 1.31 retrieving revision 1.32 diff -u -r1.31 -r1.32 --- hb-working-rcscripts.xml 11 Oct 2007 20:09:02 -0000 1.31 +++ hb-working-rcscripts.xml 2 Mar 2011 08:09:48 -0000 1.32 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml,v 1.31 2007/10/11 20:09:02 nightmorph Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-rcscripts.xml,v 1.32 2011/03/02 08:09:48 nightmorph Exp $ --> <sections> @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ these aspects and explains how to deal with these scripts. </abstract> -<version>1.25</version> -<date>2007-10-11</date> +<version>2</version> +<date>2011-03-02</date> <section> <title>Runlevels</title> @@ -651,7 +651,11 @@ <p> Gentoo's init script syntax is based on the Bourne Again Shell (bash) so you are -free to use bash-compatible constructs inside your init script. +free to use bash-compatible constructs inside your init script. However, you may +want to write your init scripts to be POSIX-compliant. Future init script +systems may allow symlinking <path>/bin/sh</path> to other shells besides +bash. Init scripts that rely on bash-only features will then break these +configurations. </p> </body>
