Re: Several reasons why debian should not use bash for /bin/sh

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

I was just getting ready to forward this to debian-devel (-:

I set my sh link to point to ash last night.  All seems well so far. 
Will reboot when I get home.  I have had one problem.  A configure
script from a program I downloaded called /bin/sh, yet it declared a
function.  To my knowledge bourne does not support functions.  Changing
the #! line to call bash instead worked.

I would like to second Chris on this one.  Low memory machines do still
exist and having >64megs of RAM is not an excuse to squander memory. 
Supporting shells like ash would help our 486 friends as well as
machines with a great deal of scripting occuring.

As to the ksh shell not being Bourne compliant I agree with you Chris in
theory.  However I have seen scripts work in sh and bash, but not in ksh
(and yes sh was its own shell and not a link to bash).  This may have
changed -- this was over a year ago.


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