On Jun 30, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 28.06.2010 05:10, schrieb Victor Lowther:
I have spent some time over the last month or so rewriting the Arch initscripts in idiomatic bash -- since they rely on bash-specific features, trying to keep them fairly POSIX is rather a waste of time and a net performance loss -- using bash-style conditionals is about 30% faster when nothing needs to be touched on the filesystem and about 200% easier to read, and you can use bash regexps in place of most trivial uses of sed, grep, and awk when mangling parameters or variables -- the fewer short-lived processes we fork the better.
You can browse changes I have made in the git repo @ http://git.fnordovax.org/arch-initscripts/log/?h=bashification and you can checkout my changes to play around with from git://fnordovax.org/~victor/arch-initscripts
Okay, those are LOTS of patches. I agree with most of them, but not all. However, reviewing and commenting them like this is a bit tedious - can you use git send-email to send them to this list as a patch series, so I can comment properly?
Sure. I will do so tonight.