[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Usa of "source" in startup scripts

[From: Riku Voipio]

On Friday 17 June 2005 14:26, Florian Boor wrote:
> while integrating some maemo software into OpenEmbedded i ran into trouble
> because many startup scripts used "source" instead of "." to source external
> files. This seems to be a feature of bash and isn't implemented in busybox 
ash i

It's a POSIX feature. And support for it can be added to busybox ash with a 
massive one-line patch. Ofcourse, "." is 5 chars shorter than "source", but 
that is a micro-optimization in maemo platform scale... :-)

-- 
Riku