/usr boot time dependencies
Michael K. Johnson
johnsonm at redhat.com
Wed Aug 20 13:18:01 UTC 2003
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:13:24AM +0200, Florian La Roche wrote:
> "sort -u" is a GNU extension. I am not sure we should rely on it.
It's incredibly common and we could never replace our sort implementation
with one that did not implement -u. When relying on it will speed up
the boot process, ignoring it would be silly.
> > use the bash EUID builtin variable :)
>
> I don't think we should add further things that rely on bash specifics.
Other advanced shells have similar things.
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