From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
kbuild-all@lists.01.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kbuild-all] Re: [PATCH] gcov: fail build on gcov_info size mismatch
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:22:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wj8kZ4LdbejRzBbWwGdqewPuV=1U8sEY1KzW3ubQ4AB+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210315230951.GA17229@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:10 PM Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> The quoting on "!" doesn't help I'm afraid. Even though [ is a
> built-in it is not allowed to look at the quoting because it's
> supposed to behave in the same way whether you get the builtin [
> or the one from /usr/bin.
>
> So when it gets the expression the quoting on the "!" has already
> been removed.
Oh Gods, that's truly disgusting.
But I guess from a historical perspective, it actually makes a nasty
kind of horrible sense.
What a crock. Oh well. We had the workaround already, so it's not like
this causes any heartache aside from "shell is even worse than most
people can imagine".
Linus
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: kbuild-all@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcov: fail build on gcov_info size mismatch
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:22:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wj8kZ4LdbejRzBbWwGdqewPuV=1U8sEY1KzW3ubQ4AB+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210315230951.GA17229@gondor.apana.org.au>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 4:10 PM Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>
> The quoting on "!" doesn't help I'm afraid. Even though [ is a
> built-in it is not allowed to look at the quoting because it's
> supposed to behave in the same way whether you get the builtin [
> or the one from /usr/bin.
>
> So when it gets the expression the quoting on the "!" has already
> been removed.
Oh Gods, that's truly disgusting.
But I guess from a historical perspective, it actually makes a nasty
kind of horrible sense.
What a crock. Oh well. We had the workaround already, so it's not like
this causes any heartache aside from "shell is even worse than most
people can imagine".
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-15 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-11 13:03 [PATCH] gcov: fail build on gcov_info size mismatch Peter Oberparleiter
2021-03-11 18:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-12 17:46 ` Peter Oberparleiter
2021-03-11 19:33 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-11 19:33 ` kernel test robot
2021-03-11 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-11 20:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-12 3:49 ` [kbuild-all] " Rong Chen
2021-03-12 3:49 ` Rong Chen
2021-03-12 17:52 ` [kbuild-all] " Linus Torvalds
2021-03-12 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-15 2:31 ` [kbuild-all] " Rong Chen
2021-03-15 2:31 ` Rong Chen
2021-03-15 19:12 ` [kbuild-all] " Linus Torvalds
2021-03-15 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-15 20:32 ` [kbuild-all] " Jamie Heilman
2021-03-15 20:32 ` Jamie Heilman
2021-03-15 20:57 ` [kbuild-all] " Linus Torvalds
2021-03-15 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-15 23:09 ` [kbuild-all] " Herbert Xu
2021-03-15 23:09 ` Herbert Xu
2021-03-15 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-03-15 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-03-16 9:51 ` [kbuild-all] " Herbert Xu
2021-03-16 9:51 ` Herbert Xu
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