[Linux-ha-dev] Re: cronjobs v1.2 rc1 OCF resource agent now available

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Thu Jul 17 16:43:32 MDT 2008


On 2008-07-16T20:42:28, Matthew Soffen <matt at soffen.com> wrote:

> The main reason for not wanting bash was for the Non Linux architectures 
> (i.e. *BSD and Solaris).
>
> Yes, its a readily available but since it isn't standard and sh is, whats 
> the big deal ?
>
> Desiging/coding for sh (not for bash) means maximum portability.

We've had incidents where people sh-ified scripts such as drbd, which is
plain pointless, as that is only available on Linux.

Compared to the other stuff we pull in, I really, really, really don't
get it.


Regards,
    Lars

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