[lxc-devel] using posix shell instead of bash

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at canonical.com
Wed Nov 14 21:58:16 UTC 2012


Quoting Natanael Copa (ncopa at alpinelinux.org):
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:54:58 -0600
> Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Natanael Copa (ncopa at alpinelinux.org):
> 
> forgot this...
>  
> > > 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?
> 
> yes.

Cool, thanks - though I didn't know about checkbashisms (which Stephane
pointed out).  With that, we can automate that checking at build time
(heck at check-in time), which makes me happy :)

-serge




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