Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite

[Seth Goldberg]

Quoting Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, who wrote the following on...:

> On 26.09.2013 19:10, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> >  Ditto here.  I'd prefer it stay *sh.
> Even if it would mean to go with bash?
> Solaris was one of the worst platforms for making grub-install work
> there due to its very limited shell and standard tools behaving
> differently. Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it got broken for
> solaris again.
> I see Solaris as one of platforms which can benefit a lot from this move.

 My motivation was mainly from a maintenance perspective, but it really 
depends on how well-structured the C is.  In the past, some essential code 
(*cough* relocator) was implemented monolithically and was extremely difficult 
to understand.  There are certainly a lot of positives to implementing it in C 
(the tons of forks from the file-copies can be eliminated, for example).

 NB: bash is a first-class shell on Solaris these days, so I'm not too 
concerned about that.

 Thanks,
 --S