[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#772382: Re: Bug#772382: syslog-ng-core: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Raphael Geissert]

Control: reopen -1

(only doing it once)

On Sunday 07 December 2014 11:54:58 Gergely Nagy wrote:
>     Raphael> checkbashisms' output:
>     >> possible bashism in ./etc/init.d/syslog-ng line 81 (sleep only
>     >> takes one
>     >> integer):
>     >> sleep 1s
> 
> This is not a bashism. It is a GNUism, which happens to work with bash's
> builtin, and with dash too, because it uses /bin/sleep from coreutils,
> which supports this too.
> 
> I'm closing this issue, because there's nothing to fix, it's a false
> alarm.

It's a bug, and will make your init script break depending on what /bin/sh 
is pointing to. You may getaway with fractions, but in this case most 
implementations will just error out and not sleep at all.

https://bugs.debian.org/772336

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert