Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:49:44 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh |
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:11:46 +0100 Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:24:17PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg> > > > Use "awk" instead of "gawk". > > > > -- > > > > There's a symlink from awk to gawk if you're using the gnu tools, but no > > symlink from gawk to awk if you're using BusyBox or some such. (There's a > > reason for the existence of standard names. Can we use them please?)
If the kernel is being compiled on a non-Linux system (eg: legacy Unix) then it is, I guess, possible for `awk' and `gawk' to offer different features. If the kernel's use of gawk uses GNU extensions then this patch might break things on such a system.
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