init.d scripts

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Ed Hill wrote:
>> Its maximally portable across Linux, but is not POSIX compliant. Then
>> again, I guess neither is php. Probably not a problem for what you
>> are working on, but keep it in mind.
>
> Yes, I'm aware that POSIX stopped just short of standardizing it.  In
> any case, its a very common trick and it works nicely on nearly all
> "recent" versions of Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, etc.  In fact, you'll
> have a difficult time finding a Unix or Linux OS released after 1999
> that doesn't support that syntax.
>
> And please don't submit some stripped-down embedded system as a  
> counter
> example.  I don't doubt their existence.  ;-)

Just because you said not to, the discussion came up on the busybox  
mailing list. :)