Hi,
Am Don, 2003-06-26 um 05.03 schrieb Herbert Poetzl: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:32:44AM +0200, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > probably he believes he would understand perl better > than shell scripts, or ... i think you can write more structured perl code than shell scripts. but please - I don't want to start a holy war :-) > > that can't be done i a shell script ? > > reasons for not using perl (or any other script > language) for the vserver script: > > - sh is available on _all_ systems perl too. I don't know a linux distro without perl. > - vserver hooks are probably shell scripts too indeed. most script actions are "system" calls even in perl. > reasons agains using shell scripts: > > - overhead is high (forks, I/O, etc) i don't think that this is important because noone really runs that amount of concurrent vserver scripts. > - simple things often need complicated solutions sometimes. :) with kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Roland Moriz -- Muenchen/Germany - http://www.roland-moriz.de/
