Sept. 7, 2013
12:59 p.m.
On Sat, 07 Sep 2013, Bennett Todd wrote:
Does this tool really need to be portable to busybox, or other such spare environment?
No, but I think that it is desirable for it to be portable to most POSIX systems. Zefram seems willing to remove any gawkisms that have crept into his patches, so I don't see a problem. The shell portion of the code already relies on the select statement, which is in bash and in ksh, but not in POSIX sh, and I think that's fine -- most systems have at least one of ksh or bash. The awk part of the code used to be portable, and should soon be portable again. --apb (Alan Barrett)