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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] ptxdist: Check for GNU readlink
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:14:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120313101432.GK29221@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120312195617.GA13907@regiomontanus.bwalle.de>

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:56:17PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> thanks again for the review.
> 
> * Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> [2012-02-14 23:05]:
> > > +# bash implementation of realpath / readlink -f
> > > +#   arg1 - filename
> > > +realpath()
> > > +{
> > > +	local fname oldfname
> > > +
> > 
> > hmmm, scary.
> 
> What's wrong about 'local'?

Not the 'local', the whole function. Getting all corner-cases right for
something like this is not trivial.

> > Another idea: Is the problem that "readlink -f" does not work or does
> > "readlink" not exist at all? Any readlink implementations should work here
> > for fname="$(readlink "${fname}")".
> 
> You're right. Even Apple adds a working readlink implementation. :)
> 
> > > +		if [ "$fname" = . ] ; then
> > > +			fname="$(dirname $oldfname)"
> > > +		elif echo $fname | grep -vq '^/' - ; then
> > 
> > 		elif [ "${fname}" -eq "${fname#/}" ]; then
> 
> -eq is only for numeric comparison, so it should be '=', right?

Right.

> 
> > 	( cd "$(dirname "${fname}")"
> > 
> > > +	fname=$(pwd -P)/$(basename $fname)
> > 
> > 	)
> 
> Assigning a variable in a subshell has no effect on the outer shell, has
> it? But echo'ing directly here works.

True. We want to echo anyways.

> A reworked version will follow.

Michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-14 20:55 Bernhard Walle
2012-02-14 22:05 ` Michael Olbrich
2012-03-12 19:56   ` Bernhard Walle
2012-03-13 10:14     ` Michael Olbrich [this message]
2012-03-13 11:32       ` Bernhard Walle
2012-03-13 10:16 [ptxdist] [PATCH 2/2] " Michael Olbrich
2012-03-13 11:23 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH] " bernhard
2012-03-13 11:30 ` bernhard
2012-03-13 13:17   ` Michael Olbrich

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