From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:14:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid using dc in git-count-objects
Message-ID: <4361A5BB.5040100@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1EVKmt-0003xn-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> 
>>Oh - there's another similarity between $(..) and $((..)). They're both 
>>POSIX 1003.2 standard features, so any "modern" shell should support them. 
>>Although in practice I don't know if that means anything else than ksh 
>>(where both syntaxes came from, actually).
> 
> 
> There is also dash (http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/).
> It complies with POSIX, is less than half the size of pdksh (83960 bytes
> currently on i386), and is faster than pdksh.

Current ash also has these features, and is about that size compiled 
static with klibc :)

	-hpa