[arch-general] Re: [Bulk] Re:RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

The 09/05/12, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:30:34 +0200
> Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
> 
> > You should turn them all in things like:
> > 
> >   mkdir /sys 2> /dev/null 2>&1
> >   cd /sys || {
> >     ewarn "<the error message>"
> >     return 1
> >   }
> 
> That's just a little less racy and certainly not
> atomic, /usr/bin/install would be atomic. As you have said
> your race point doesn't actually matter. You call it plain wrong and
> admit there is nothing wrong at the same time?

The way used to handle conditions is wrong. And I admit that for /this/
particular case, this is not much relevant.

> There's another point, shell is easily editable and understandable  and
> that's a good thing and not a bad one and also one of arches values I
> believe, hence pacman uses so much shell!

I don't find pacman much editable, sorry. I've given examples of nice
features not easy to implement, here in the past. ,-p

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht