FYI, new API for top in current kernels.

2010-05-19 Thread Rob Landley
Described here: http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2010/04/show-real-swap-usage-for-each.html FYI, Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds ___ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net

Re: [PATCH] gen_build_files.sh: Remove bashisms

2010-05-19 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 17 May 2010 06:23:30 Natanael Copa wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2010 18:05:53 Peter Tyser wrote: Using 'read' without a variable is not supported in many shells. Lines such as 'while read; do' in

Re: [PATCH] gen_build_files.sh: Remove bashisms

2010-05-19 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 18 May 2010 17:54:44 Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hey Rob, please do abstain from biting our contributors. :) Ok. Sorry. Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds ___ busybox mailing list

bash alias is added

2010-05-19 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 06:12, Rob Landley wrote: Which is why you say #!/bin/bash and then teach busybox's shells to understand the name bash. The name is a promise of an API beyond Posix. I'm not understanding the argument for using bash-specific functionality, but not using bash as

Re: Adding bash support to hush: the todo list.

2010-05-19 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 17 May 2010 09:41:36 Matthew Stoltenberg wrote: We probably want some kind of config option for the alias, so bash and busybox can easily be installed side by side without interfering with each other. Rob I'm not the best at wording, but see the attached patch. Matt Looks

Re: Adding bash support to hush: the todo list.

2010-05-19 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Thursday 20 May 2010 03:04, Rob Landley wrote: On Monday 17 May 2010 09:41:36 Matthew Stoltenberg wrote: We probably want some kind of config option for the alias, so bash and busybox can easily be installed side by side without interfering with each other. Rob I'm not the

Re: net redirection in busybox's built in shell (ash)

2010-05-19 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 22:22, Oliver Noll wrote: Hello. Is it possible to implement the net direction (/dev/tcp) in the built in shell? What syntax do you need supported? -- vda ___ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net

Re: Adding bash support to hush: the todo list.

2010-05-19 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Monday 17 May 2010 16:41, Matthew Stoltenberg wrote: We probably want some kind of config option for the alias, so bash and busybox can easily be installed side by side without interfering with each other. Rob I'm not the best at wording, but see the attached patch. I did it a

Re: fascistic commit r084e2284c700 busybox/scripts/gen_build_files.sh

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Tyser
snip Maybe some other shells happen to allow read without arguments, but its a crapshoot as its not a standard. Which is why you say #!/bin/bash and then teach busybox's shells to understand the name bash. The name is a promise of an API beyond Posix. That's fine by me, adding

Re: fascistic commit r084e2284c700 busybox/scripts/gen_build_files.sh

2010-05-19 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 19 May 2010 22:34:09 Peter Tyser wrote: snip Maybe some other shells happen to allow read without arguments, but its a crapshoot as its not a standard. Which is why you say #!/bin/bash and then teach busybox's shells to understand the name bash. The name is a promise of

Re: Adding bash support to hush: the todo list.

2010-05-19 Thread Michael D. Setzer II
On 20 May 2010 at 3:46, Denys Vlasenko wrote: From: Denys Vlasenko vda.li...@googlemail.com To: busybox@busybox.net Subject:Re: Adding bash support to hush: the todo list. Date sent: Thu, 20 May 2010 03:46:24 +0200 Copies to:

Re: fascistic commit r084e2284c700 busybox/scripts/gen_build_files.sh

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Tyser
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 23:38 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 22:34:09 Peter Tyser wrote: snip Maybe some other shells happen to allow read without arguments, but its a crapshoot as its not a standard. Which is why you say #!/bin/bash and then teach busybox's