[PATCH v2] sotruss: convert from ksh to bash

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Fri Mar 14 06:52:00 GMT 2014


Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> writes:

> I also think the changes to the script are fine, but they are purely
> cosmetic and wholly unnecessary.  Your "pure bash" and "to match bash"
> comments seem to imply that "function foo {" style is somehow less
> supported by bash than "foo() {", which AFAIK has never been the case.

function foo is non-POSIX (POSIX reserves the function keyword, but
doesn't add any meaning to it).  Bash only supports function for
ksh-compatibility, but otherwise prefers the POSIX syntax.

Andreas.

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