From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inz9C-0005Cg-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:13:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA2GCPa1015820; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:12:25 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA2GAVsd013391 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:10:31 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.31] (uberlaptop.marples.name [10.73.1.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3560190106 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200711021158.24188.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <472B29B9.50002@gentoo.org> <200711021138.04061.vapier@gentoo.org> <1194018527.10346.6.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl> <200711021158.24188.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:10:29 +0000 Message-Id: <1194019829.10346.14.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 25477336-7a0a-43fd-b7cf-ead4f0f63b68 X-Archives-Hash: e90fd91df30bec37848b45ffc89299ec On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > and the answer is still the same. POSIX conversions are irrelevant until you > can propose solutions for the things bash can do but POSIX cannot. you can > only provide workarounds or hacks, so any further attempt on the topic is > half way conversions that lead to ugly inconsistencies. Please point to the ugly inconsistent POSIX hacks in this thread? Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list