[libvirt] Remove bashisms from libvirt-guests

Laurent Léonard laurent at open-minds.org
Sat Dec 25 19:44:34 UTC 2010


Le lundi 20 décembre 2010 17:01:14, Eric Blake a écrit :
> On 12/18/2010 04:51 AM, Laurent Léonard wrote:
> >>> -    retval wait $virsh_pid && printf '\r%s%-12s\n' "$label" $"done"
> >>> +    retval wait $virsh_pid && printf '\r%s%-12s\n' "$label" "`gettext
> >>> \"done\"`"
> >> 
> >> Likewise: "$(gettext "done")"
> >> 
> >> But thanks for taking this on; we're getting closer to a nice solution.
> > 
> > I followed:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/gettext/Preparing-Shell-Scripts.
> > html but totally agree with your comments.
> 
> The gettext manual assumes that you are trying to be portable to all
> sorts of /bin/sh, including Solaris's horribly-dated version that lacks
> lots of POSIX features, hence it uses `` instead of $().  But for a
> Linux init script, we can safely assume a decent POSIX shell.

Any news about fixing those bashisms ?

Thank you,
-- 
Laurent Léonard




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