Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

[Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr>]

First of all, thank you all for your answers.

i'll provide some documented, posix compliant, one piped patches as 
wishlist.

> Of course this would all be so much simpler if we could actually use the
> power of modern shells (post 1993) in init scripts - subprocesses
> wouldn't be required at all....

that is a point which surprise me : i understand the dash for a posix 
and lightweight attitude but why use bash as "modern shell" ? why not 
perl or zsh (which are both more powerfull) ?

in zsh, for example, pipes are not required anymore for the 
mysqld_get_param function :

# defaults are stored in an array
# global to the script because the result isn't volatile

local mysqld_defaults=( $(/usr/sbin/mysqld --print-defaults) )

mysqld_get_param () {

 # ${mysqld_defaults%--$1*}
 # returns all elements of mysqld_default that does not match
 # --$1*
 # (M) invert the result
 #
 # for all those elements, #*= delete the '=' caracter and
 # every symbols before it.

 echo ${${(M)mysqld_defaults%--$1*}#*=}
}

regards
mc