Quoting Natanael Copa (nc...@alpinelinux.org): > Hi, > > I wonder if it there are any interest to make the scripts posix shell > compliant so they can run with for example busybox ash and dash. > > I would like to provide proper LCX support for Alpine Linux, which by > default runs from tmpfs. It uses uclibc and busybox as the base system, > which makes it very lightweight. Looking at the scripts, it seems like > it would be fairly easy to adjust the script to not depend on bash at > all, making it possible to make the LCX host even lighter. > > Before I start with sending patches, is this something that you would > be interested in, or are you married with bash (like the vserver ppl)?
I don't think anyone is married to bash here. The debian package has changed some scripts from bash to sh. I'm only leery of resulting breakages and reports of subtle time-consuming bugs, and potentially less-maintainable code. (Note also that lxc-ls may be rewritten in python. Is that a problem for your use case?) > Would you be prepared for minor sacrifices to use posix compliant shell > scripts? Someone else can jump in if they object, but I personally don't. Are you willing to subscribe to github.com/lxc/lxc#staging commits and watch for new commits re-breaking posix compliance? Successful runs of https://code.launchpad.net/~serge-hallyn/+junk/lxc-test with your patches will also be reassuring. -serge ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Lxc-devel mailing list Lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-devel
