Control: severity -1 minor Hi Steve,
On Saturday 06 December 2014 12:45:19 Steve Langasek wrote: > Control: affects -1 devscripts > On Sat, Dec 06, 2014 at 01:56:15PM +0100, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > checkbashisms' output: > > > possible bashism in ./etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh line 67 (sleep only takes > > > one integer): > > > sleep 0.1 [...] > It's also not something that actually breaks with dash. /bin/sleep is not > a required builtin in POSIX shell, and it's not a builtin with *either* > of bash or dash. > > $ sh -c 'type sleep' > sleep is /bin/sleep > $ bash -c 'type sleep' > sleep is /bin/sleep > $ > > So I think this is a bug in checkbashisms, for complaining about something > that is in no way a bashism. It is a utility, which is provided as a built-in by some shells such as *ksh. Outside of Debian it is also a command that does not necessarily implement anything beyond accepting an integer. (oh and there's a patch in dash's ML to implement sleep as a built-in command). More info on the topic: http://rgeissert.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-bashism-week-sleep.html Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
