431790 – Initscripts should be posix compliant

Bug 431790 - Initscripts should be posix compliant

Summary: Initscripts should be posix compliant

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Other documents (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Docs Team

URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook...
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Reported:	2012-08-17 23:51 UTC by Julian Ospald
Modified:	2012-11-19 07:52 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Julian Ospald 2012-08-17 23:51:53 UTC

The handbook tells us bash would be fine which seems to only apply to bashlayout-1 according to some voices in #gentoo-dev

They should all be posix compliant now. The handbook does not make it clear that bash syntax is not allowed at all anymore.

Comment 1 Julian Ospald 2012-08-17 23:52:49 UTC

s/bashlayout-1/baselayout-1/

Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-31 19:02:25 UTC

Thanks, committed to CVS.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-11-19 07:52:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)

mmm, no, POSIX is *not* required.  it's highly encouraged.

if maintainers really need bash, we don't ban it.