Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4 in ebuilds?

2013-02-03 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/03/2013 01:12 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Ryan Hill wrote: > >> We have eclasses that require Bash 4 (eg. multiprocessing.eclass >> uses BASHPID). > > I wonder why it would be needed there. Doesn't $$ work? In a subshell, I think $$ is the pid of the parent shell,

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4 in ebuilds?

2013-02-03 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Ryan Hill wrote: > We have eclasses that require Bash 4 (eg. multiprocessing.eclass > uses BASHPID). I wonder why it would be needed there. Doesn't $$ work? Ulrich

[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4 in ebuilds?

2013-02-02 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:06:39 +0100 hasufell wrote: > From a little discussion in this bug > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454600#c11 > it seems that it's not entirely sure what bash version can be assumed. We have eclasses that require Bash 4 (eg. multiprocessing.eclass uses BASHPID).