On Saturday 15 May 2010 12:59:38 Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > But, even if it did work (did you test? what shell?),
Me, on bash. And the point of the quotes around the "$()" is to preserve whitespace in the output. (Alas, it doesn't preserve embedded NUL bytes, and yes I did test that.) > forking a subshell > just to get an LF character stashed into a variable, is way too expensive. You're about to launch gcc, and forking a subshell is too expensive? I think you've officially passed into la-la land with that remark. Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
