Benjamin Schieder:

package/base/udev/useless_use_of_cat.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+diff -pruN udev-077/extras/ide-devfs.sh udev-077-patched/extras/ide-devfs.sh
+--- udev-077/extras/ide-devfs.sh	2005-12-04 03:01:48.000000000 +0100
++++ udev-077-patched/extras/ide-devfs.sh	2006-01-16 08:54:51.000000000 +0100
+@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ get_dev_number() {
+ 
+ 	for x in /proc/ide/*/media; do
+ 		if [ -e "${x}" ]; then
+-			lMEDIA=`cat ${x}`
++			read lMEDIA < ${x}
+ 			if [ "${lMEDIA}" = "$2" ]; then
+ 				num=$((${num} + 1))
+ 			fi
+@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ get_dev_number() {
+ }
+ 
+ if [ -z "$3" ] && [ -f /proc/ide/${1}/media ]; then
+-	MEDIA=`cat /proc/ide/${1}/media`
++	read MEDIA < /proc/ide/${1}/media
+ 	if [ "${MEDIA}" = "cdrom" ]; then
+ 		echo ide/host${HOST}/bus${BUS}/target${TARGET}/lun0/cd cdroms/cdrom`get_dev_number $1 cdrom` ${MEDIA}
+ 	elif [ "${MEDIA}" = "floppy" ]; then
+diff -pruN udev-077/extras/raid-devfs.sh udev-077-patched/extras/raid-devfs.sh
+--- udev-077/extras/raid-devfs.sh	2005-12-04 03:01:48.000000000 +0100
++++ udev-077-patched/extras/raid-devfs.sh	2006-01-16 09:01:47.000000000 +0100
+@@ -9,17 +9,29 @@
+ # KERNEL=="rd!*",    PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/raid-devfs.sh %k", NAME="%c{1}", SYMLINK+="%k"
+ 
+ get_dev_number_cciss() {
+-  grep '^cciss/' /proc/driver/cciss/* | cat -n | \
++  num=1
++  grep '^cciss/' /proc/driver/cciss/* | while read line ; do
++	echo "$num\t$line"
++	num=$(($num+1))
++  done | \
+     sed -n "/cciss\/$1:/s/cciss.*//p"
+ }
+ 
+ get_dev_number_ida() {
+-  grep '^ida/' /proc/driver/cpqarray/* | cat -n | \
++  num=1
++  grep '^ida/' /proc/driver/cpqarray/* | while read line ; do
++	echo "$num\t$line"
++	num=$(($num+1))
++  done | \
+     sed -n "/ida\/$1:/s/ida.*//p"
+ }
+ 
+ get_dev_number_rd() {
+-  grep '^ */dev/rd/' /proc/rd/*/initial_status | cat -n | \
++  num=1
++  grep '^ */dev/rd/' /proc/rd/*/initial_status | while read line ; do
++	echo "$num\t$line"
++	num=$(($num+1))
++  done | \
+     sed -n "/rd\/$1:/s/\/dev\/rd.*//p"
+ }
+