On April 23, 2017 7:44:48 PM PDT, "Paul E. McKenney" 
<paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 03:05:49PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:52:10PM +0000, Kushwaha, Priyalee wrote:
>> > Tested 9 distros centos, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Opensuse,
>slackware, Ubuntu, poky showed awk at /usr/bin/awk. 
>> > 
>> > Here is another similar patch which has been approved
>https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9650581/
>> > 
>> > centos-7:
>> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 15 19:58 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx 1
>root root 4 Mar 15 19:58 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk
>> > 
>> > Debian-8:
>> > ls: cannot access /bin/awk: No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx 1
>root root 21 Mar 20 23:26 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
>> > 
>> > Fedora:
>> > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4 Sep 12  2016 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx.
>1 root root 4 Sep 12  2016 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk
>> > 
>> > Gentoo:
>> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jan  1 13:57 /bin/awk -> ../usr/bin/gawk
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  4 Jan  1 13:57 /usr/bin/awk -> gawk
>> > 
>> > Opensuse:
>> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 20 11:19 /bin/awk ->
>/etc/alternatives/awk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 20 11:19
>/usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/usr-bin-awk
>> > 
>> > Slackware:
>> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  4 Mar 10 15:37 /bin/awk -> gawk lrwxrwxrwx
>1 root root 13 Mar 10 15:37 /usr/bin/awk -> ../../bin/awk
>> > 
>> > Ubuntu:
>> > ls: cannot access '/bin/awk': No such file or directory lrwxrwxrwx
>1 root root 21 Dec  6  2015 /usr/bin/awk -> /etc/alternatives/awk
>> > 
>> > Poky:
>> > ls: /bin/awk: No such file or directory
>> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            19 Apr 20 22:59
>/usr/bin/awk
>> 
>> This seems fairly conclusive.  Based on this, switching over to
>> /usr/bin/awk seems fine.
>
>Thank you both!  Josh, may I have your Acked-by?

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>

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