Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > sh script.sh is very different from running it in a subshell with (). > For example, bash doesn't really fork a new invocation - it just > sets up a new internal environment temporarily. It's a speed optimization.
I didn't learn this. However it's funny that even sysvinit does not use "(sh script)" but only "sh script". At least the version I checked this morning. > I'm only taking Solaris as an example, because it works. But I understand > what you mean. BTW, what's r2d2? r2d2 is the successor of file-rc from the same author, it's more like a general unix registry. ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/Linux/source/base/r2d2/ > > Proof for this being not the one and only is one of the latest > > bugs agains kbd. > > I bet the user who reported that bug uses an old sysvinit in which > this change wasn't made in /etc/init.d/rcS. You lost. The used version of rcS didn't come from sysvinit. Regards, Joey -- We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. - Linus Torvalds
