On Wednesday 06 May 2009 14:57:27 Robby Workman wrote: > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 May 2009 12:45:44 Robby Workman wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>> the install-with-care seems to have a spurious change from `...` to > >>> $(...) > >> > >> That's noted in the commit log: > >> - replaced `command` with $(command) for current POSIX standard > > > > that doesnt make any sense. both forms are perfectly supported in POSIX > > and have been for pretty much all time, and neither is preferred by the > > standard over the other. > > I won't make any claims that this is authoritative, but: > http://tinyurl.com/ca7r9u (link to an ibm page) > > From what I understand (and I may very well be wrong), backticks are > deprecated in newer bash as well.
it isnt authoritative. if you want authoritative, you should go to the actual POSIX spec: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html using $(...) in favor of `...` in general as a "good programming practice" is one thing, claiming the spec deprecates it is completely different ... > Granted, the reasons for the (alleged) deprecated don't apply here, > as these aren't nested backticks, but the change doesn't hurt anything > either. mixing unrelated changes doesnt jive with me which is why i pointed it out. but i'm not the maintainer who accepts/rejects the patch, so maybe Jon doesnt care. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-modules" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
