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

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 5:48 PM, David Lee wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>
>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Beekhof wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:15, David Lee <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Darwin.  it's on our list of 'heartbeat' OSes.  Anyone have any
>>>>> knowledge
>>>>> of current versions and 'bash'?
>>>>
>>>> bash is the default shell on darwin
>>>
>>> ack - don't know the version thou.
>>> will try to get that information
>>
>>
>> GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin9.0)
>> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Looks promising.  Thanks, Andrew.
>
> I suppose the real question is a pair:
>  (a) What is the earliest version of darwin that we need to support?

Technically we don't _need_ to support any version.
It just happens that I do most of the development there and so  
anything that doesn't work tends to get fixed.

Tiger (the current version minus one) is the oldest one that I'd  
bother caring about and it also has bash as the default.
Prior to that bash was available but not the default (but more  
importantly the peer pid stuff used by the IPC code wasn't functional  
back then).

>
>  (b) Does that version of darwin have a reasonable 'bash'?
>
>
> By example, taking the Solaris equivalent (which is what I know a  
> little
> about):
>
> A few years ago that would have been: "(a) Solaris 2.6; (b) no easy  
> bash".
> Nowadays: "(a) Solaris 2.8 (probably 2.9).  (b) Decent bash since  
> 2.8".
>
>
>
> So a migration to assume availability of bash is looking promising.
>
>
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