From: Roland Moriz (roland_at_moriz.de)
Date: Thu 26 Jun 2003 - 05:27:43 BST
Hi,
Am Don, 2003-06-26 um 05.03 schrieb Herbert Poetzl:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 03:32:44AM +0200, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> probably he believes he would understand perl better
> than shell scripts, or ...
i think you can write more structured perl code than shell scripts. but
please - I don't want to start a holy war :-)
> > that can't be done i a shell script ?
>
> reasons for not using perl (or any other script
> language) for the vserver script:
>
> - sh is available on _all_ systems
perl too. I don't know a linux distro without perl.
> - vserver hooks are probably shell scripts too
indeed. most script actions are "system" calls even in perl.
> reasons agains using shell scripts:
>
> - overhead is high (forks, I/O, etc)
i don't think that this is important because noone really runs that
amount of concurrent vserver scripts.
> - simple things often need complicated solutions
sometimes. :)
with kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Roland Moriz
-- Muenchen/Germany - http://www.roland-moriz.de/