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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA bashism check on portage
       [not found]       ` <200902261233.23823.drizzt@gentoo.org>
@ 2009-02-26 15:08 99%     ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2009-02-26 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Timothy Redaelli, gentoo-dev

On Thursday 26 February 2009 06:33:17 Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 10:32:52 you wrote:
> > i'm totally not following.  we were talking about POSIX shell syntax, but
> > now you're talking about utilities as well ?
>
> I'm talking about checkbashism.pl checks and btw type is a builtin and kill
> can also be a builtin

it doesnt matter if they're builtins, they still need to follow POSIX

> kill -HUP
> `cat /var/run/mDNSResponderPosix.pid` >&/dev/null possible bashism in
> /etc/init.d/mDNSResponderPosix line 35 (kill -[0-9] or -[A-Z]): kill -HUP

POSIX states that `kill [-signal_name]` is valid syntax.  if the shell doesnt 
support it, then it isnt POSIX complaint and therefore it sucks and is not 
worth consideration.
-mike



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