On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:13:21PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:

> Hello,

Hi Andreas,

> I was non-mildly horrified to find that the rather widely used patch-kernel
> script seems to rely on bash despite specifying the interpreter as #!/bin/sh,
> since my dash-using Debian install choked on it.
> 
> Thus I'm delivering a first, preliminary, non-reviewed change to make
> patch-kernel (a little bit more?) POSIX-compatible. It now survives both
> a dash and a bash run.
>...
> Comments?
>...

if that's easyly possible it's OK.

But if it becomes possible I'd strongly favour simply changing the 
interpreter to #!/bin/bash which would also fix this problem.

> Thanks,
> 
> Andreas Mohr
>...

cu
Adrian

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