[RFC] rc.d integration for the bluetooth subsystem

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:27:23AM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 
> if expr "$_line" : "[a-zA-Z0-9_]*=" > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> ...
> fi
> 
> i do not really have any objection to this. since i already pass the 
> value through eval i might as well pass the entire line.

And so the users will be able to use basic sh(1) tricks in the lines.

> >And AFAIK stdin to a while loop can be redirected w/o enclosing
> >the loop in braces.
> 
> sure, but it looked more clear (to me anyway) this way :)

Hmmm, I'm unsure if it worked at all ;-)  In sh(1) you need to
place a ';' before '}' if there is no '\n' after the last command
in braces.  That is, the sh(1) syntax dictates that you can write

	{ command1; command2; }

or
	{
		command1
		command2
	}

but not

	{ command1
	  command2 }

In the last case '}' will be passed as an argument to command2
and shell will croak on brace mismatch.

For some reason '}' behaves like a command itself in sh(1),
unlike ')'.

-- 
Yar