Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> Well, that isn't so much about rc's advantages. Keep in mind though that
> this would force getflags to be present whenever you need a shell script.
> For most installations this isn't an issue, but for those running Plan 9
> embedded it is. And with space constraints providing some of /rc/bin might
> be reasonable, providing aux/getflags might not.

i don't buy this argument.  if you're running plan 9 with rc & scripts, you
have many MB of ram and mmu and several MB of persistant storage.
it's hard to get small flash parts these days.  i can't see 64k mattering.

> Besides, if a script
> doesn't use more than two or three different options getflags doesn't reduce
> much complexity (if you aren't writing a new script). And concerning speed,
> if command line parsing dominates the execution time I honestly wouldn't
> bother.

i would think that the reason to do this would be for consistency.  i
don't know that that's a compelling argument.  but i can see the
attraction of all or nothing; it would be nice if either none of the
scripts used getflags or all of them did.

- erik