Re: [PATCH] Remove bashisms from scripts/extract-ikconfig

From: Julio M. Merino Vidal
Date: Sat Jun 09 2007 - 15:39:34 EST


On 09/06/2007, at 21:34, Christian Kujau wrote:

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
Wouldn't this be better expressed as:

start=$(($start + 8))
size=$(($end - $start))

to avoid invoking a subshell?

This is certainly possible for lots for scripts, but was not the "scope" of this patch. ` is not bash-specific and does not break anything.

$((...)) is not bash-specific either.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino@xxxxxxxxxx>


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