On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:19:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 06:00:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:53:03PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > OTOH, specifically using something else than /bin/sh for a fast
> > > POSIX-with-the-extensions-Debian-mandates shell (i.e. forget posh, but dash
> > > is good) does NOT need /bin/sh to point to it, so it can't trip on such
> > > issues caused by external factors outside of Debian's control.
> > Afaict ubuntu did the change, and the sky didn't fell apart.
>
> It did cause a bunch of problems for Ubuntu users, though:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/61463
true, but like said, the most usual bashisms could be supported with
trivial patches to dash, when dash is invoked as /bin/sh (to not break
possible scripts using #!/bin/dash).
the 3 biggest problems I've seen are:
* [[ for test, trivial: add it as a test alias, and also check for ]]
termination in the test.c builtin.
* echo -e: trivial to implement in the printf.c builtin.
* { } globbing, dash uses the glibc's glob, so it's just a matter of
adding | GLOB_BRACE to the flags.
Maybe source (for .) could be added to, I don't expect it to be much
harder. With that, you should be able to run most of the /bin/sh scripts
out there that were written with /bin/sh being bash.
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