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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Bugfixes only, release on Friday the 30th.
From:       Rob Landley <rob () landley ! net>
Date:       2006-06-26 20:30:07
Message-ID: 200606261630.07570.rob () landley ! net
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On Monday 26 June 2006 4:15 pm, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 2:49 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> >  > > I think the $MDEV variable is not so necessary (if you want to
> >  > > shrink the code a little), since the $DEVPATH var is already passed
> >  > > to the command executed and can be used to get the actual device
> >  > > name by removing the prefix.
> >  >
> >  > DEVPATH is only set for hotplug events, not scanning with mdev -s.  It
> >  > also turns "ln -s $MDEV cdrom" into "ln -s `echo $DEVPATH | sed
> >  > 's@.*/@@'` cdrom" which is a lot clumsier.
> >
> > i know this is a detail in the greater scheme of this thread, but
> > if you're using ash, then this:
> >     ln -s ${DEVPATH##*/} cdrom
> > is pretty painless.  doesn't work in msh, i'm afraid.
>
> Yeah, but I just copied it to my pending folder to make it work in libbb.

I mean in bbsh.

See "fried", discussed earlier...

Rob
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