coreutils instructions

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Dubbs" <bruce.dubbs at gmail.com>
To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev at linuxfromscratch.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: coreutils instructions


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> > I use bash all the time and I wouldn't consider using a minimal posix
shell
> > for my login shell. For any non-trivial script, I use bash. However, for
a
> > generic shell script, I don't know why you couldn't make it posix
compliant.
> > That allows people to have flexibility without much loss. The
bootscripts are
> > pretty simple.
>
> As you mention, bootscripts are pretty simple and in no way are a stress
test.
> Four seconds doesn't seem very significant to me.  It's not enough to
notice
> unless you are doing a timing test.
>
Keeping bootscript simple help and allow to use busybox ash without trouble.
That's a bit out of coreutils topic.
But when you want to keep booting from floppy possible, bash is too big.

Gilles