Re: [PATCH] rmap 15j for 2.4.21-rc6

[Andreas Hartmann]

Hi,

Willy Tarreau wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:55:48PM +0200, Andreas Hartmann wrote:
>> Michael Frank wrote:
> <...>
>> > GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
>> 
>> 2.02.1(1)-release
> <...>
>> > -   while (( i-- )); do
>> > +   while (( i=`expr $i - 1` )); do
>> > 
>> > In your opinion are your changes more portable across a wide range of
>> > systems?
>> 
>> I didn't think at portability :-). I only made it working for me. Maybe
>> there are other persons out there who do have some old versions too - so
>> they can use this patch.
> 
> Well, I found that i--/i++ don't work with bash-2.03 (present about
> everywhere) but i=i-1 or i=i+1 work well. So at least, for portability,
> this could be rewritten as "while (( i=i-1 )); do".

Works fine with 2.02.1, too.

Regards,
Andreas Hartmann