Re: ash vs. bash
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:18:08AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
>Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
>> This sounds fair enough. I haven't read the source in sufficient
>> detail, so it may be that there isn't actually a problem, but I'd
>> really rather someone else checked it out.
>
>I just ran a test under strace, and the behavior of
>update-alternatives looks completely safe to me.
>
>I don't see any way for it to make /bin/sh unavailable.
For the sake of the proposed switch, I have been running /bin/sh -> /bin/ash
for a few days now (also across a few reboots), and I didn't have any
problems.
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