[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1126316: Bug#1126316: zfsutils-linux: /usr/lib/udev/vdev_id requires gawk when multipath enabled

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/issues/239

[Paul B. Henson]
> I'm assuming upstream probably won't be interested in making their awk
> script posix compliant, so perhaps zfsutils-linux should depend on gawk,
> and the script be updated to call gawk directly rather than whatever the
> default system awk is?

No idea what upstreams position is, but the upstream issues seem to be
<URL: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/issues/239 >, reported
2024-06-23 with no response so far.

If switching to gawk is not an option, I noticed
<URL: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/560185/how-can-i-sort-within-an-awk-script-on-linux >
propose to implement sorting as a function in mawk.

An alternative might be to replace the END block with a pipe to sort and
cut outside the awk call.

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen