Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Then agriffis invented the original die, along with assert (which no-one > seems to use these days...). It avoided the quoting and environment > problems with try, and it was good. However, it doesn't work inside > subshells, which is only a mild annoyance so long as you know your > shell scripting (which most devs don't...). > assert is definitely useful (not only in ebuild context of course)
.. > The problem... is that most people don't realise a) when they're > triggering a subshell, b) how die works (read the source, it's about > twenty lines) or c) how unix signals work. This is why it's dangerous to > claim that "die now works inside subshells" -- yes, it does work, > *sometimes*, but because of all the limitations imposed by signals, it > cannot be considered a complete solution. > Sorry, where is the source; which package and file? I've read up a bit on signals- iirc they don't always get thru. Can I ask you- have you got an entire system building in Paludis, and do others? How well does it run from an install? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
