Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sed s/gawk/awk/ scripts/gen_init_ramfs.sh | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:30:40 -0500 |
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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 7:49 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. > > I guess we'll find out...
I think we can rule out the "print $6" and "print $11" as gnu extensions. And sub() is in the Single Unix Specification v3 spec for awk:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/awk.html
I've used the busybox version and it worked just fine, once the links were renamed.
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